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title: He cannot eat the hay and yet he will not let us eat it who are so h… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He cannot eat the hay and yet he will not let us eat it who are so hungry for it!" Who acts: selfish, us. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 5

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He cannot eat the hay and yet he will not let us eat it who are so hungry for it!"

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**Who acts:** selfish, us · **What happens:** not eat, not let, eat, be · **To what, where:** hay, us

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (selfish, us), 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:pg19994:71:5
# text = He cannot eat the hay and yet he will not let us eat it who are so hungry for it!"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | can | selfish | the hay |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **let** | future | selfish | us |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | us *not said here* | hay |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for hay; hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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