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title: "What a crime," cried one, "to load up a poor dumb beast like that! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "What a crime," cried one, "to load up a poor dumb beast like that! Who acts: crime. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 17

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"What a crime," cried one, "to load up a poor dumb beast like that!

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**Who acts:** crime · **What happens:** crime, cry, load up · **To what, where:** one, poor dumb beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crime), 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:pg19994:134:17
# text = "What a crime," cried one, "to load up a poor dumb beast like that!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	load	load	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crime** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a crime | one |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 3 | **load up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a crime *not said here* | a poor dumb beast |  |  |  | like that | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |

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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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