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title: He asked them to let him share the cave with them, and the Snakes ki… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He asked them to let him share the cave with them, and the Snakes kindly consented. Who acts: Porcupine, Snakes. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Porcupine and the Snakes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Porcupine and the Snakes, sentence 3

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He asked them to let him share the cave with them, and the Snakes kindly consented.

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**Who acts:** Porcupine, Snakes · **What happens:** ask, let, share, consent · **To what, where:** Snakes, Porcupine, cave

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Porcupine and the Snakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcupine, Snakes), 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:pg19994:119:3
# text = He asked them to let him share the cave with them, and the Snakes kindly consented.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Porcupine |  | Snakes *= snake* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Porcupine *not said here* | Porcupine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **share** | infinitive | Porcupine *not said here* | the cave |  |  |  | with Snakes *= snake* | tree rules |
| 4 | **consent** | participle | the Snakes |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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