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title: It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese suffered at the teeth of the Fox family. Who acts: quarrel, race, Geese. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 3

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It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese suffered at the teeth of the Fox family.

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**Who acts:** quarrel, race, Geese · **What happens:** say, grow out, suffer, race · **To what, where:** compromise, persecution, teeth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarrel, race, Geese), 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:pg19994:45:3
# text = It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese suffered at the teeth of the Fox family.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | compromise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow out** | past | the quarrel | the persecution |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location persecution=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | the race of Geese | the persecution *not said here* |  | the teeth of the Fox family |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer persecution=Stimulus |
| 4 | **race** |  | Geese |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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