--- title: This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. Who acts: entertaining sight, Ass, cords. 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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 (entertaining sight, Ass, cords), 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:pg21:9:60 # text = This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 entertaining entertaining ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 till till ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 liking like VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 handling handling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 subject subject ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 bound bound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 tumbling tumble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 41 off off ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 46 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | this entertaining sight | | the people | crowds | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination | | 2 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | this entertaining sight *not said here* | | | sight | till the Ass | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **like** | gerund | this entertaining sight *not said here* | the noise nor the strange handling | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot noise=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | Ass | the strange handling *not said here* | | | | subject *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **break** | past | | the cords | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=Patient | | 6 | **bound** | present | the cords | Ass | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme | | 7 | **tumble** | gerund | | | | the pole | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme off pole=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **fall** | past | | | | | | into the river *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/61/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/)