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description: Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. Who acts: FISHERMAN, fish. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its depen
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 88

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Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below.

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**Who acts:** FISHERMAN, fish · **What happens:** stand, play, attract, place, dance · **To what, where:** projecting rock, several tunes, hope, fish, net

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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 (FISHERMAN, fish), 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:pg21:3:88
# text = Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below.
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	projecting	projecting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	below	below	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | FISHERMAN *not said here* |  |  | a projecting rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 2 | **play** | past | FISHERMAN | several tunes |  | the hope and the fish and fish's own accord dance |  | into FISHERMAN's net | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |
| 3 | **attract** | participle |  | the fish and fish's own accord dance *not said here* |  |  |  | by FISHERMAN's melody | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | FISHERMAN's net |  |  |  | below *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **dance** |  | fish |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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