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description: The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.” Who acts: numbers, your. 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 50

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The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”

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**Who acts:** numbers, your · **What happens:** see, shut up, cause · **To what, where:** numbers, prison house, sorrow

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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 (numbers, your), 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:pg21:14:50
# text = The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
23	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | numbers *= number* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** | participle | numbers *= number* *not said here* |  |  | this prison house |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** |  | your | sorrow |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent 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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