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title: How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume!” Who acts: Wine, vessel. 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 5

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How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume!”

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**Who acts:** Wine, vessel · **What happens:** be, leave behind, contain · **To what, where:** vessel, wine

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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 (Wine, vessel), 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:pg21:7:5
# text = How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume!”
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | must · perfect | the Wine  wine |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave behind** | present | wine |  |  |  |  | in the vessel *result*; behind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in vessel=Result |
| 3 | **contain** | past | the vessel | wine |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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