--- title: He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by sa… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.” Who acts: laugh, marvel, hairs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laugh, marvel, hairs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:10:25 # text = He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 glee glee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 11 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 forsaken forsake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 parataxis _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull up** | past | laugh | laugh's horse | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent horse=Result | | 2 | **join** | participle | | | | | | with great glee; in the joke | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with glee=Co-Agent in joke=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | marvel | hairs | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | should · present | hairs | | | | | from me; fly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **forsake** *in a quote* | present · perfect | hairs *= hair* | the man | | the man's head | | | tree rules | | 7 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | hairs *= hair* | the man's head *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/26/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/)