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title: The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. Who acts: Youth. 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 94

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The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value.

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**Who acts:** Youth · **What happens:** advance, proceed, steal · **To what, where:** Youth, adulthood, things

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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 (Youth), 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:pg21:6:94
# text = The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	adulthood	adulthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | participle |  | the Youth *not said here* |  | adulthood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to adulthood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **proceed** | past | the Youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **steal** | to-infinitive | the Youth *not said here* | things of greater value |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |

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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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