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title: When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a thir… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King. Who acts: Frogs. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 142

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When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King.

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**Who acts:** Frogs · **What happens:** discover, send, beg, choose · **To what, where:** easy good nature, Jupiter, King

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frogs), 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:pg21:4:142
# text = When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | the Frogs | Jupiter's easy good nature |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Topic |
| 2 | **send** | past | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | yet; time |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  | Jupiter |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **choose** | to-infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* | another King |  |  |  | for Frogs *= frog* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=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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