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title: The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. Who acts: cock. 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 45

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The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early.

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**Who acts:** cock · **What happens:** aggravate, resolve, kill, rouse · **To what, where:** maidens, such excessive labor, cock, mistress

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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 (cock), 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:pg21:6:45
# text = The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	aggravated	aggravate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aggravate** | participle |  | the maidens *not said here* |  |  |  | by such excessive labor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **resolve** | participle |  | such excessive labor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | the cock |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme |
| 4 | **rouse** | past | the cock | Maidens's mistress |  |  |  | early *property* | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Patient |

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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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