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title: It was enough to hang anyone for, much more an Ass. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It was enough to hang anyone for, much more an Ass. Who acts: crime, Ass. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 30

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It was enough to hang anyone for, much more an Ass.

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**Who acts:** crime, Ass · **What happens:** be, hang · **To what, where:** anyone

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crime, Ass), 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:pg19994:125:30
# text = It was enough to hang anyone for, much more an Ass.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | crime |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | to-infinitive | crime *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 3 | **be** |  | a Ass |  |  |  |  |  | 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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