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title: "No, no," replied the other, "You would not say 'we' before, so now… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, no," replied the other, "You would not say 'we' before, so now stick to your 'I'. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 13

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"No, no," replied the other, "You would not say 'we' before, so now stick to your 'I'.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** reply, not say, stick · **To what, where:** other, we, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg19994:25:13
# text = "No, no," replied the other, "You would not say 'we' before, so now stick to your 'I'.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	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	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the other |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | You | we |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | I |  | now |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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