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title: They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind. Who acts: Lion, each, Man. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 2

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They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind.

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**Who acts:** Lion, each, Man · **What happens:** begin, quarrel, boast, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, each, Man), 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:pg19994:101:2
# text = They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Lion |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | past | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Man |  |  |  |  | to the other; far, superior *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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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