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title: THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most bea… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. Who acts: POMEGRANATE. 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 3

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THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful.

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**Who acts:** POMEGRANATE · **What happens:** dispute, be

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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 (POMEGRANATE), 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:pg21:4:3
# text = THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	POMEGRANATE	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Apple	Apple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **dispute** | past | the POMEGRANATE |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |

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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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