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title: The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.” Who acts: Crow, feathers. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 47

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The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.”

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**Who acts:** Crow, feathers · **What happens:** put, say, be, protect · **To what, where:** end, Crow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Crow, feathers), 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:pg21:3:47
# text = The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the Crow | a end |  |  |  | to the dispute | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your feathers |  |  |  | in the spring | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **protect** *in a quote* | present | the Crow *= crow* |  | the Crow *= crow* |  | winter |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |

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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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