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title: A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun. Then a sudden puff of wind arose, and the Lamp was immediately extinguished. Who acts: LAMP, wind. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 33

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A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun. Then a sudden puff of wind arose, and the Lamp was immediately extinguished.

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**Who acts:** LAMP, wind · **What happens:** soak, flare, boast, give, arise, be · **To what, where:** LAMP, more light, sudden puff

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LAMP, wind), 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:pg21:9:33
# text = A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun. Then a sudden puff of wind arose, and the Lamp was immediately extinguished.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LAMP	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	flaring	flare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **soak** | participle |  | a LAMP *not said here* |  |  |  | with much oil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with oil=Theme |
| 2 | **flare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | past | a LAMP |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | Lamp | more light |  |  |  | than the sun.; a sudden puff *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 5 | **arise** | past | wind | a sudden puff *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location puff=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the Lamp |  |  |  |  | extinguished, immediately *property* | tree rules |

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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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