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title: A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two wo… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. Who acts: AGED MAN, gray. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 77

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A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time.

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**Who acts:** AGED MAN, gray · **What happens:** begin, turn, court · **To what, where:** gray, two women

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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 (AGED MAN, gray), 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:pg21:5:77
# text = A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	MIDDLE	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	AGED	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	courted	court	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · perfect | a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN's hair's hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN's hair's hair *not said here* | gray |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gray=Theme |
| 3 | **court** | participle | gray *not said here* | two women |  |  | time |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-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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