--- title: The Panther and the Shepherds The Partridge and the Fowler The Peaco… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Panther and the Shepherds The Partridge and the Fowler The Peacock and the Crane The Peacock and Juno The Peasant and the Apple-Tree The Peasant and the Eagle The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury The Playful Ass The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat The P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/71/) [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/) / 71 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 71 The Panther and the Shepherds The Partridge and the Fowler The Peacock and the Crane The Peacock and Juno The Peasant and the Apple-Tree The Peasant and the Eagle The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury The Playful Ass The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat The Prophet **Who acts:** Mercury · **What happens:** ass 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 (Mercury), 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:pg21:17:71 # text = The Panther and the Shepherds The Partridge and the Fowler The Peacock and the Crane The Peacock and Juno The Peasant and the Apple-Tree The Peasant and the Eagle The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury The Playful Ass The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat The Prophet 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Panther panther NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Shepherds Shepherd PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Partridge Partridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Fowler Fowler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Peacock Peacock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Crane Crane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Peacock Peacock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Juno Juno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 20 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Peasant Peasant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Tree Tree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 27 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Peasant Peasant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 32 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Philosopher Philosopher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Ants Ant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 Mercury Mercury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Playful playful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 Ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 43 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Pomegranate Pomegranate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 Tree Tree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 Bramble Bramble PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 52 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 Porker Porker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 Goat Goat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 61 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 Prophet Prophet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 flat _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ass** | | Mercury | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/72/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/)