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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 97

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The spectacle was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage.

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**What happens:** repeat, bend, take, throw · **To what, where:** spectacle, mischief, handful, pocket, courtiers, stage

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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: 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:pg21:9:97
# text = The spectacle was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	till	till	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **repeat** | past · passive |  | the spectacle |  |  | till one occasion | with great applause; often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with applause=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  |  |  | mischief |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mischief=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | a handful of nuts |  | man's pocket |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **throw** | past |  | courtiers *= courtier* |  | the stage |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon stage=Destination |

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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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