--- title: The Dancing Monkeys The Doe and the Lion The Dog and the Cook The Do… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Dancing Monkeys The Doe and the Lion The Dog and the Cook The Dog and the Hare The Dog and the Oyster The Dog and the Shadow The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox The Dog in the Manger The Dogs and the Fox The Dogs and the Hides The Dog’s House The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat The Dove and the C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/) / 59 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 59 The Dancing Monkeys The Doe and the Lion The Dog and the Cook The Dog and the Hare The Dog and the Oyster The Dog and the Shadow The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox The Dog in the Manger The Dogs and the Fox The Dogs and the Hides The Dog’s House The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat The Dove and the Crow **Who acts:** Dancing, Oyster · **What happens:** monkey, dog · **To what, where:** Doe This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dancing, Oyster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:17:59 # text = The Dancing Monkeys The Doe and the Lion The Dog and the Cook The Dog and the Hare The Dog and the Oyster The Dog and the Shadow The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox The Dog in the Manger The Dogs and the Fox The Dogs and the Hides The Dog’s House The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat The Dove and the Crow 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 Monkeys monkey VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Doe Doe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Cook Cook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Oyster Oyster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Shadow Shadow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 29 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 38 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Manger Manger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 48 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 Hides Hide PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 53 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Dog Dog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’s 's PART POS _ 54 case _ _ 56 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 57 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 Dolphins Dolphin PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 Whales Whale PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 Sprat Sprat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 67 compound _ _ 66 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 Dove Dove PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 Crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **monkey** | present | the Dancing | the Doe and the Lion | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dog** | | the Oyster | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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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