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title: The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day. Who acts: foolish pair. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 55

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The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.

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**Who acts:** foolish pair · **What happens:** hope, become, deprive, assure · **To what, where:** Hen

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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 (foolish pair), 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:pg21:10:55
# text = The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | gerund | the foolish pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the foolish pair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once, rich *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **deprive** | past | the foolish pair | Hen |  |  |  | of the gain | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Source of gain=Theme |
| 4 | **assure** | past · passive |  | Hen |  |  | day | of the gain | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of which=Topic |

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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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