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title: The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators. Who acts: Buffoon. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 89

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The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators.

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**Who acts:** Buffoon · **What happens:** grunt, squeak away, obtain, precede, cheer · **To what, where:** spectators

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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), 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:pg21:16:89
# text = The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Buffoon	Buffoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grunted	grunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cheers	cheer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	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 | **grunt** | past | the Buffoon |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **squeak away** | past | the Buffoon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, first *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **obtain** | past | the Buffoon *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cheer** |  |  | the spectators |  |  |  |  | nom cheer «communication 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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