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title: Not long afterwards when someone passed by and observed the unruffle… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterwards when someone passed by and observed the unruffled calm of the Sea, he interrupted him and said, “It is again in want of dates, and therefore looks quiet.” Who acts: someone, calm. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 107

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Not long afterwards when someone passed by and observed the unruffled calm of the Sea, he interrupted him and said, “It is again in want of dates, and therefore looks quiet.”

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**Who acts:** someone, calm · **What happens:** pass by, observe, unruffl, interrupt, say, be · **To what, where:** unruffled calm, tempest, want · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, calm), 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:pg21:7:107
# text = Not long afterwards when someone passed by and observed the unruffled calm of the Sea, he interrupted him and said, “It is again in want of dates, and therefore looks quiet.”
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	unruffled	unruffl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	calm	calm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
35	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **observe** | past |  | the unruffled calm of the Sea |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent calm=Topic |
| 3 | **unruffl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **interrupt** | past | someone | tempest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | calm |  |  | want | again | of dates | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | quiet, therefore *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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