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title: AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master. Who acts: AN ASS, herb seller, Shadow. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 67

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AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master.

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**Who acts:** AN ASS, herb seller, Shadow · **What happens:** belong, give, make, release, provide, service · **To what, where:** little food, Shadow, petition, Jupiter, present service

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AN ASS, herb seller, Shadow), 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:pg21:8:67
# text = AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master.
1	AN	an	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **belong** | gerund | AN ASS *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a herb seller | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | a herb seller | little food and much work | Shadow |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | AN ASS | a petition | Jupiter |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petition=Product |
| 4 | **release** | to-infinitive · passive | AN ASS *not said here* |  |  | Shadow's present service |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING» |
| 5 | **provide** | participle | AN ASS *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with another master | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with master=Theme |
| 6 | **service** |  | Shadow |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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