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title: Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other. Who acts: pride, Goats. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 5

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Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.

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**Who acts:** pride, Goats · **What happens:** not permit, stand, pride

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pride, Goats), 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:pg19994:37:5
# text = Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **permit** | would | Goats's pride |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Goats's pride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the other; aside *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for other=Attribute |
| 3 | **pride** |  | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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