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description: This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little. Who acts: agreement. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree a
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 119

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This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.

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**Who acts:** agreement · **What happens:** make, apply, take away, steal · **To what, where:** agreement, salve, something, visit, property

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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 (agreement), 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:pg21:5:119
# text = This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	salve	salve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **make** | gerund · passive |  | this agreement and the Physician and time after time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 2 | **apply** | past | this agreement and the Physician and time after time | presence's salve |  |  |  | to infirmity's eyes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salve=Theme |
| 3 | **take away** | past | this agreement and the Physician and time after time *not said here* | something |  | every visit |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 4 | **steal** | gerund | this agreement and the Physician and time after time *not said here* | infirmity's property |  |  |  | by little; little *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location property=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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