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title: The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, w… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. Who acts: beasts, Lion. 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 67

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The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them.

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**Who acts:** beasts, Lion · **What happens:** express, come, devour, sorrow · **To what, where:** sorrow, one, beasts

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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 (beasts, Lion), 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:pg21:4:67
# text = The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | the beasts | beasts's sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | one |  |  |  | by one to Lion's den | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 3 | **devour** | past | the Lion | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **sorrow** |  | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling 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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