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title: So he commanded that all animals with horns should leave his domains… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So he commanded that all animals with horns should leave his domains within twenty-four hours. Who acts: animal, animals. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 3

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So he commanded that all animals with horns should leave his domains within twenty-four hours.

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**Who acts:** animal, animals · **What happens:** command, leave · **To what, where:** domains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, animals), 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:pg19994:144:3
# text = So he commanded that all animals with horns should leave his domains within twenty-four hours.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	domains	domain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | should | all animals with horns | animal's domains |  |  | hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent domain=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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