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title: He would not honor the fool with even so much as a stroke of his cla… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He would not honor the fool with even so much as a stroke of his claws. Who acts: Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 4

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He would not honor the fool with even so much as a stroke of his claws.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** not honor, stroke · **To what, where:** fool, claws

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion 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 (Lion), 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:pg19994:26:4
# text = He would not honor the fool with even so much as a stroke of his claws.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	honor	honor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **honor** | would | Lion | the fool |  |  |  | with much as a stroke of Lion's claws | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 2 | **stroke** |  |  | Lion's claws |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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