--- title: The Salt Merchant and his Ass The Seagull and the Kite The Seaside T… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Salt Merchant and his Ass The Seagull and the Kite The Seaside Travelers The Seller of Images The Serpent and the Eagle The She-Goats and their Beards The Shepherd and the Dog The Shepherd and the Sea The Shepherd and the Sheep The Shepherd and the Wolf The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf The Shipwr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/74/) [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/) / 74 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 74 The Salt Merchant and his Ass The Seagull and the Kite The Seaside Travelers The Seller of Images The Serpent and the Eagle The She-Goats and their Beards The Shepherd and the Dog The Shepherd and the Sea The Shepherd and the Sheep The Shepherd and the Wolf The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea The Sick Kite The Sick Lion The Sick Stag The Sparrow and the Hare The Spendthrift and the Swallow The Stag at the Pool The Stag in the Ox-Stall The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep The Swallow and the Crow The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice The Swan and the Goose The Swollen Fox **Who acts:** Image, Court · **What happens:** goat, shipwreck, fox 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 (Image, Court), 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:pg21:17:74 # text = The Salt Merchant and his Ass The Seagull and the Kite The Seaside Travelers The Seller of Images The Serpent and the Eagle The She-Goats and their Beards The Shepherd and the Dog The Shepherd and the Sea The Shepherd and the Sheep The Shepherd and the Wolf The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea The Sick Kite The Sick Lion The Sick Stag The Sparrow and the Hare The Spendthrift and the Swallow The Stag at the Pool The Stag in the Ox-Stall The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep The Swallow and the Crow The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice The Swan and the Goose The Swollen Fox 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Salt Salt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Merchant Merchant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Seagull Seagull PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Kite Kite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Seaside Seaside PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Travelers Traveler PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 15 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Seller Seller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Images Image PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Serpent Serpent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - 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- PUNCT HYPH _ 92 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 94 Stall Stall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 79 nmod _ _ 95 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 96 det _ _ 96 Stag Stag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 94 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 97 , , PUNCT , _ 99 punct _ _ 98 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 99 det _ _ 99 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 94 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 100 , , PUNCT , _ 103 punct _ _ 101 and and CCONJ CC _ 103 cc _ _ 102 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 103 det _ _ 103 Sheep Sheep PROPN NNP Number=Sing 79 appos _ _ 104 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 105 det _ _ 105 Swallow Swallow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 103 conj _ _ 106 and and CCONJ CC _ 108 cc _ _ 107 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 108 det _ _ 108 Crow Crow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 103 conj _ _ 109 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 110 det _ _ 110 Swallow Swallow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 108 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 111 , , PUNCT , _ 113 punct _ _ 112 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 113 det _ _ 113 Serpent Serpent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 103 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 114 , , PUNCT , _ 127 punct _ _ 115 and and CCONJ CC _ 127 cc _ _ 116 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 117 det _ _ 117 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 127 nsubj _ _ 118 of of ADP IN _ 119 case _ _ 119 Justice Justice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 117 nmod _ _ 120 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 121 det _ _ 121 Swan Swan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 119 conj _ _ 122 and and CCONJ CC _ 124 cc _ _ 123 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 124 det _ _ 124 Goose Goose PROPN NNP Number=Sing 121 conj _ _ 125 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 127 det _ _ 126 Swollen swollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 127 amod _ _ 127 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 103 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **goat** | | Image | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shipwreck** | participle | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fox** | | the Court of Justice and the Swan and the Goose | | | | | | 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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