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title: "Yes, yes," answered the Stag confidently, "the Wolf has promised to… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, yes," answered the Stag confidently, "the Wolf has promised to be my surety." Who acts: Stag, Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 4

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"Yes, yes," answered the Stag confidently, "the Wolf has promised to be my surety."

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**Who acts:** Stag, Wolf · **What happens:** answer, promise, be · **To what, where:** surety · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, Wolf), 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:pg19994:124:4
# text = "Yes, yes," answered the Stag confidently, "the Wolf has promised to be my surety."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	confidently	confidently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Stag |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* | my surety |  |  |  |  | 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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