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title: So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew. Who acts: Ass. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 8

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So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew.

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**Who acts:** Ass · **What happens:** eat, drink · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass), 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:pg19994:73:8
# text = So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would | the Ass | nothing |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | present | the Ass *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

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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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