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title: "He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger." Who acts: Bear, fellow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 9

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"He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger."

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**Who acts:** Bear, fellow · **What happens:** say, answer, be, keep, desert · **To what, where:** other, company, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, fellow), 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:pg19994:118:9
# text = "He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	desert	desert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the other |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | company |  |  |  | with a fellow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 5 | **desert** *in a quote* | would | a fellow | Bear's friend |  |  | moment |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme friend=Source |

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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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