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title: Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarr… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast. Who acts: Traveler, Ass. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 6

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Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast.

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**Who acts:** Traveler, Ass · **What happens:** wish, rest, cast, begin, quarrel, say · **To what, where:** shade, Ass, shadow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Traveler, 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:pg19994:133:6
# text = Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast.
1	Wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | gerund | Traveler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Traveler *not said here* |  |  | the shade |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location |
| 3 | **cast** | participle |  | the shade *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Ass | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by ass=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Traveler |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | Traveler *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Traveler | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with traveler=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Traveler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **hire** | past · perfect | Traveler | the Ass and the shadow |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme |
| 8 | **cast** | past | Ass | the shadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shadow=Product |

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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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