--- title: When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night. Who acts: Maidens. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maidens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:6:46 # text = When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ _ 16 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 troubles trouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 no no ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Maidens *= maiden* | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 2 | **find** | past | Maidens *= maiden* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive | | Maidens *= maiden* | | | | for Maidens *= maiden*; for Maidens's mistress | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary trouble=Product | | 4 | **hear** | gerund | Maidens *= maiden* *not said here* | | | | hour | from the cock; long *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cock=Source | | 5 | **wake up** | past | Maidens *= maiden* *not said here* | Maidens *= maiden* | | | | to Maidens's work in the middle of the night | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **work** | | Maidens *= maiden* | | | the middle of the night | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/47/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/)