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title: The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation caused an intense silence. Who acts: Buffoon, sense. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 83

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The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation caused an intense silence.

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**Who acts:** Buffoon, sense · **What happens:** appear, cause, sense · **To what, where:** platform, intense silence, expectation

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buffoon, sense), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:16:83
# text = The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation caused an intense silence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Buffoon	Buffoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	apparatus	apparatus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	confederates	confederate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the Buffoon |  |  | the platform |  | without any apparatus or confederates; alone *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon platform=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past | the sense of expectation | a intense silence |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition silence=Patient |
| 3 | **sense** |  |  | expectation |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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