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title: _An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Goat, sentence 10

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\_An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.

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**What happens:** prompt, not be · **To what, where:** invitation

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:72:10
# text = _An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	prompted	prompt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prompt** | participle |  | a invitation *not said here* |  |  |  | by selfishness | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present · passive |  | a invitation |  |  |  | accept *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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