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title: The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mout… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly. Who acts: whole Body, hands. 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 41

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The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.

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**Who acts:** whole Body, hands · **What happens:** become, debilitate, mouth, repent

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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 (whole Body, hands), 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:pg21:6:41
# text = The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	debilitated	debilitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	repented	repent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the whole Body |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **debilitate** | participle | the whole Body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mouth** |  | the hands and feet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repent** | participle | the whole Body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of eyes's folly | tree rules |

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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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