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title: Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where they were accustomed to find their food. Who acts: Frog. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 116

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Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where they were accustomed to find their food.

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**Who acts:** Frog · **What happens:** join, lead, accustom, find · **To what, where:** friend, Mouse, food

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog), 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:pg21:6:116
# text = Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where they were accustomed to find their food.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | participle | the Frog of all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus, together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the Frog of all | acquaintance's friend |  |  |  | to the meadow | tree rules |
| 3 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | Mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | Mouse's food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |

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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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