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title: She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it bac… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious! Who acts: She, drawing. 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 4

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She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious!

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**Who acts:** She, drawing · **What happens:** place, draw, say · **To what, where:** Jar · **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 (She, drawing), 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:pg21:7:4
# text = She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj:pass	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	22	case	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **place** | past | She | Jar |  |  | time | to her nose; greedily *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund |  | Jar |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | drawing |  |  |  |  | forwards *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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