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title: A Sparrow upbraided her and said, “Where now is thy remarkable swift… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Sparrow upbraided her and said, “Where now is thy remarkable swiftness of foot? Who acts: Sparrow. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 33

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A Sparrow upbraided her and said, “Where now is thy remarkable swiftness of foot?

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**Who acts:** Sparrow · **What happens:** upbraid, say, be · **To what, where:** Hare, remarkable swiftness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sparrow), 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:pg21:14:33
# text = A Sparrow upbraided her and said, “Where now is thy remarkable swiftness of foot?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	upbraided	upbraid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upbraid** | past | a Sparrow | Hare |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | a Sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | thy remarkable swiftness |  |  | now | of foot | 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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