--- title: When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: “O… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: “O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.” Who acts: FISHERMAN, nets, you, Scorpion. 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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 (FISHERMAN, nets, you, Scorpion), 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:pg21:3:90 # text = When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: “O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 leaping leap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 O o INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 20 advmod _ _ 20 perverse perverse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 piped pipe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 merrily merrily ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | FISHERMAN | nets *= net* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leap** | gerund | nets *= net* *not said here* | | | the net upon the rock | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in net=Trajectory | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | FISHERMAN | the rock *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rock=Topic | | 4 | **creature** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pipe** *in a quote* | past | the Scorpion *= scorpion* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **dance** *in a quote* | would | you | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **cease** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Scorpion *= scorpion* | you | | | now | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector you=Eventuality | | 8 | **do** *in a quote* | present | perverse creatures | | | | | merrily *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/3/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/3/91/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/3/)