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title: He was a very proud Rat, considering his small size and the bad repu… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a very proud Rat, considering his small size and the bad reputation all Rats have. Who acts: Rat, proud Rat, Rats. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 2

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He was a very proud Rat, considering his small size and the bad reputation all Rats have.

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**Who acts:** Rat, proud Rat, Rats · **What happens:** be, consider, have · **To what, where:** proud Rat, small size

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, proud Rat, Rats), 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:pg19994:31:2
# text = He was a very proud Rat, considering his small size and the bad reputation all Rats have.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rat | a proud Rat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | gerund | a proud Rat *not said here* | Rat's small size and the bad reputation |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent size=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | present | all Rats |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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