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description: For this purpose he assumed the character of a man and visited in this disguise a Sculptor’s studio having looked at various statues, he demanded the price of two figures of Jupiter and Juno. Who acts: Shadow, studio. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, wit
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 74

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For this purpose he assumed the character of a man and visited in this disguise a Sculptor’s studio having looked at various statues, he demanded the price of two figures of Jupiter and Juno.

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**Who acts:** Shadow, studio · **What happens:** assume, visit, have, look, demand, figure · **To what, where:** character, disguise, price, Jupiter

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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 (Shadow, studio), 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:pg21:8:74
# text = For this purpose he assumed the character of a man and visited in this disguise a Sculptor’s studio having looked at various statues, he demanded the price of two figures of Jupiter and Juno.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sculptor	Sculptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	studio	studio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Juno	Juno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past | Shadow | the character of a man |  |  |  | for this purpose | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | participle | Shadow *not said here* |  |  | this disguise and a Sculptor's studio |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | a Sculptor's studio *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | participle | a Sculptor's studio *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at various statues | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at statue=Theme |
| 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Shadow | the price of two figures of Jupiter and Juno |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme price=Precondition |
| 6 | **figure** |  |  | Jupiter and Juno |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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