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title: The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help him in punishing the Stag. Who acts: Horse, Stag. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 98

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The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help him in punishing the Stag.

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**Who acts:** Horse, Stag · **What happens:** desire, ask, be, help, punish · **To what, where:** revenge, stranger, man, Stag

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horse, Stag), 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:pg21:11:98
# text = The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help him in punishing the Stag.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	punishing	punish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | gerund | the Horse *not said here* | revenge  Stag |  | the stranger |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Horse |  | a man |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Stag |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Stag *not said here* |  | Stag |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **punish** | gerund | Stag *not said here* | the Stag |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=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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