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title: She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of on… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. Who acts: Hunter. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 115

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She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley.

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**Who acts:** Hunter · **What happens:** ponder, obtain, gain, give, purpose, allowance · **To what, where:** two eggs, purpose, last, double allowance, Hen, barley

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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:pg21:10:115
# text = She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	pondered	ponder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Hen	Hen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	iobj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	allowance	allowance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ponder** | past | Hunter |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | might | Hunter | two eggs |  |  |  | instead one; daily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | Hunter's purpose |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme at last=Asset |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | Hunter *not said here* | a double allowance of barley | the Hen |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient allowance=Theme |
| 5 | **purpose** |  | Hunter |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **allowance** |  |  | barley |  |  |  |  | nom allowance «possession transitive»: of=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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