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title: On the morrow a still larger crowd assembled in the theater, but now… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morrow a still larger crowd assembled in the theater, but now partiality for their favourite actor very generally prevailed, and the audience came rather to ridicule the Countryman than to see the spectacle. Who acts: audience. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fa
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 87

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On the morrow a still larger crowd assembled in the theater, but now partiality for their favourite actor very generally prevailed, and the audience came rather to ridicule the Countryman than to see the spectacle.

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**Who acts:** audience · **What happens:** assemble, prevail, come, ridicule, see · **To what, where:** larger crowd, theater, morrow, Countryman, spectacle

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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 (audience), 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:pg21:16:87
# text = On the morrow a still larger crowd assembled in the theater, but now partiality for their favourite actor very generally prevailed, and the audience came rather to ridicule the Countryman than to see the spectacle.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	theater	theater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	partiality	partiality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	actor	actor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	ridicule	ridicule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Countryman	Countryman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | participle |  | a larger crowd *not said here* |  | the theater |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prevail** | participle | the audience *not said here* |  |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the audience |  |  | the morrow and a larger crowd but partiality for theaters's favourite actor |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ridicule** | to-infinitive | the audience *not said here* | the Countryman |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryman=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the audience *not said here* | the spectacle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spectacle=Stimulus |

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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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