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title: But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw. Who acts: Jupiter, birds. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, pa
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 111

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But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, birds · **What happens:** propose, make, protest, pluck, leave · **To what, where:** king, JUPITER, each, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, birds), 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:pg21:5:111
# text = But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	obj	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | king | JUPITER |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product |
| 3 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | the birds |  |  |  |  | of the beauty of JUPITER's plumage; indignantly *property* | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pluck** | participle · passive |  | each |  |  |  | from JUPITER | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary feather=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |

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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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