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title: The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. Who acts: servants. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 34

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The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** hear, perceive, relieve, drive out · **To what, where:** strange hubbub, danger, contrary, Ass, stable

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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 (servants), 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:pg21:5:34
# text = The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hubbub	hubbub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	relieved	relieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	kicks	kick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	cuffs	cuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the servants | the strange hubbub |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hubbub=Stimulus |
| 2 | **perceive** | gerund | the servants *not said here* | the danger of servants's master |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 3 | **relieve** | past |  | contrary |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **drive out** | past |  | the Ass |  | contrary's stable |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ass=Theme to stable=Trajectory |

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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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