--- title: Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation. Who acts: Fox, that. 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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 (Fox, that), 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:pg21:4:85 # text = Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation. 1 Thereafter thereafter ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 ridicule ridicule NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 exposed expose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 schemed scheme VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 convince convince VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 iobj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 29 tailless tailless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 much much ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 attractive attractive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 thus thus ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 deprivation deprivation NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | Fox *not said here* | Fox's life | | the shame and ridicule | | thereafter *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme burden=Eventuality | | 2 | **expose** | past · passive | | Fox | the shame and ridicule | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient | | 3 | **scheme** | past | Fox | | | | | | vn conspire-71 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **convince** | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* | | all other Foxes | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fox=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | gerund | that | | | | | tailless *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | that *not said here* | | | | | attractive *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **make up** | gerund | Fox *not said here* | | | | | for Fox's own deprivation; thus *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **deprive** | | Fox | | | | | | nom deprivation «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/86/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/)