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title: The Ass replied that passing through a hedge he had trod with his fo… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ass replied that passing through a hedge he had trod with his foot upon a sharp thorn. Who acts: Ass, feeding. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 84

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The Ass replied that passing through a hedge he had trod with his foot upon a sharp thorn.

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**Who acts:** Ass, feeding · **What happens:** reply, pass, tread · **To what, where:** hedge

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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 (Ass, feeding), 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:pg21:12:84
# text = The Ass replied that passing through a hedge he had trod with his foot upon a sharp thorn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	trod	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Ass |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | the Ass *not said here* |  |  | a hedge |  | with feeding's foot; upon a sharp thorn | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hedge=Location |
| 3 | **tread** | past · perfect | feeding | a hedge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hedge=Theme |

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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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