--- title: A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, s… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. Who acts: neighbor, Pray, cause, gold. 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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 (neighbor, Pray, cause, gold), 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:pg21:4:121 # text = A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 overcome overcome ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Pray Pray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 grieve grieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 acl _ _ 45 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see overcome** | gerund | a neighbor *not said here* | neighbor | | | | with grief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | a neighbor *not said here* | the cause | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a neighbor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **grieve** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Pray | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a stone | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 7 | **place** *in a quote* | | cause | | | the hole | | | tree rules | | 8 | **lie** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the gold | fancy *not said here* | | there | still | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fancy=Theme | 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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/122/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/)