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title: AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. Who acts: OLD WOMAN, empty jar, prime old wine, former contents. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its de
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 3

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AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents.

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**Who acts:** OLD WOMAN, empty jar, prime old wine, former contents · **What happens:** find, have, be, retain, smell · **To what, where:** empty jar, fragrant smell

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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 (OLD WOMAN, empty jar, prime old wine, former contents), 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:pg21:7:3
# text = AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents.
1	AN	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	OLD	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	WOMAN	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | a OLD WOMAN | a empty jar |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | a empty jar |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | participle | a empty jar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of prime old wine; full, lately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **retain** | past | prime old wine | the fragrant smell of Jar's former contents |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **smell** |  | Jar's former contents |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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