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title: On this the rustic produced the little pig from his cloak and showed… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: On this the rustic produced the little pig from his cloak and showed by the most positive proof the greatness of their mistake. 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 92

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On this the rustic produced the little pig from his cloak and showed by the most positive proof the greatness of their mistake.

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**Who acts:** Buffoon · **What happens:** produce, show, mistake · **To what, where:** little pig, rustic

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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:pg21:16:92
# text = On this the rustic produced the little pig from his cloak and showed by the most positive proof the greatness of their mistake.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rustic	rustic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **produce** | past |  | the little pig |  | this rustic |  | from pig's cloak | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent pig=Result from cloak=Material |
| 2 | **show** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the positive proof | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mistake** |  | Buffoon |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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