--- title: At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complai… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder? Who acts: master, Stag. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Stag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:7:46 # text = At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder? 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 nsubj _ _ 7 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 properly properly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 racks rack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 37 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 39 det:predet _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 scarcity scarcity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 fodder fodder NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the master | | | | moment | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **feed** | past · perfect · passive | | Stag's oxen | | | | properly *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **go up** | past | Stag | | | | | to oxen's racks | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Stag *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | such scarcity | | | | of fodder | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/47/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/)