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description: “There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.” Who acts: occasion, man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 65

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“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.”

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**Who acts:** occasion, man · **What happens:** move, be, reply, send, help, not be · **To what, where:** son, friends, brood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (occasion, man), 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:pg21:12:65
# text = “There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
34	really	really	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | yet |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | my son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | occasion |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | present | the man |  | brood's friends |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to friend=Destination |
| 5 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  | brood |  |  | with brood's harvest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with harvest=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the man |  |  |  |  | earn *property* | tree rules |

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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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