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title: The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetc… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown. Who acts: chickens, poultry, I, my. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with i
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 126

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The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.

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**Who acts:** chickens, poultry, I, my · **What happens:** become, fetch, have, buy, share · **To what, where:** highest price, money, new gown

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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 (chickens, poultry, I, my), 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:pg21:7:126
# text = The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **become** | future | the chickens |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | future | poultry | the highest price |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | I | money |  |  | by the end of the year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a new gown |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme |
| 5 | **share** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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