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title: He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttim… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. Who acts: Fox. 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 90

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He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** accuse, be, crow, not permit, sleep · **To what, where:** Lion, nighttime, Cat

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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 (Fox), 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:pg21:4:90
# text = He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nighttime	nighttime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	permitting	permit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accuse** | past | Fox | Lion |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of a nuisance; to men | tree rules |
| 3 | **crow** | gerund | Fox *not said here* |  |  | the nighttime |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **permit** | gerund | Fox *not said here* | Cat |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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