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title: The generals, not being able to get in on account of the ornaments o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The generals, not being able to get in on account of the ornaments on their heads, were all captured and eaten by the Weasels. Who acts: generals. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 101

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The generals, not being able to get in on account of the ornaments on their heads, were all captured and eaten by the Weasels.

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**Who acts:** generals · **What happens:** not be, get in, capture, eat, account · **To what, where:** account, generals, ornaments

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (generals), 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:pg21:7:101
# text = The generals, not being able to get in on account of the ornaments on their heads, were all captured and eaten by the Weasels.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | gerund | the generals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get in** | to-infinitive | the generals *not said here* |  |  | account of the ornaments on generals's heads |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on account=Source |
| 3 | **capture** | past · passive |  | the generals |  |  |  | all *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the Weasels | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | the ornaments on generals's heads |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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