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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 120

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Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** assure, not injure, lead, arrange, fall · **To what, where:** Ass, Fox, Bull, deep pit, pit

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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:pg21:3:120
# text = Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | gerund | the Fox *not said here* | the Ass |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **injure** | would · passive |  | Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the Fox | Bull |  | a deep pit | then |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to pit=Destination |
| 4 | **arrange** | past | the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | should | Fox |  |  | pit |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result |

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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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