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title: She ran off to her father, to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefu… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: She ran off to her father, to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy, made use of that which belonged only to girls. Who acts: girl, made use. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 45

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She ran off to her father, to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy, made use of that which belonged only to girls.

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**Who acts:** girl, made use · **What happens:** run off, avenge, accuse, have, make, belong · **To what, where:** FATHER, boy, girls, that

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, made use), 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:pg21:13:45
# text = She ran off to her father, to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy, made use of that which belonged only to girls.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	spitefully	spitefully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | to girl's father *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result |
| 2 | **avenge** | to-infinitive · passive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on girl's Brother | tree rules |
| 3 | **accuse** | past | girl *not said here* | FATHER |  |  |  | spitefully *property* | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | girl *not said here* | a boy |  |  |  | made use of that *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **belong** | past | made use of that | girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **use** |  |  | that |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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