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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 143

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Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake.

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, Heron, none, Frogs · **What happens:** displease, send, prey, be, leave, croak · **To what, where:** Jupiter, Heron

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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 (Jupiter, Heron, none, 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:pg21:4:143
# text = Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake.
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	displeased	displease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	complaints	complaint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Heron	Heron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	preyed	prey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	croak	croak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **displease** | participle |  | Jupiter *not said here* |  |  |  | with Frogs's complaints | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **send** | past | Jupiter | a Heron |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Theme |
| 3 | **prey** | past | a Heron |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | past | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **croak** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the lake | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **complain** |  | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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