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description: Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him. Who acts: space, size. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 99

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Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.

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**Who acts:** space, size · **What happens:** consider, be, make, accommodate · **To what, where:** space

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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 (space, size), 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:pg21:13:99
# text = Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc:preconj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | space |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | size |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | space *not said here* | space |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product |
| 4 | **accommodate** | would | space *not said here* | space |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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