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title: The Rose replied, “I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rose replied, “I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season! Who acts: Rose. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 74

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The Rose replied, “I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season!

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**Who acts:** Rose · **What happens:** reply, flourish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rose), 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:pg21:15:74
# text = The Rose replied, “I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Amaranth	Amaranth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flourish	flourish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	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: express* | past | the Rose |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **flourish** *in a quote* |  | the Rose *= rose* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | 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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