--- title: When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised paym… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.” Who acts: Crane. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crane), 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:pg21:3:25 # text = When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Crane Crane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 extracted extract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 grinning grin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 grinding grind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 30 surely surely ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 already already ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 sufficient sufficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 recompense recompense NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 in in SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 permitted permit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **extract** | past · perfect | the Crane | the bone | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | | the promised payment | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme payment=Precondition | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grind** | gerund | | Grasshopper's teeth | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 6 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | a sufficient recompense | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recompense=Patient | | 8 | **permit** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **draw out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | your head | | safety | | from the mouth and jaws of a wolf | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in safety=Destination | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/3/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/3/26/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/3/)