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title: “Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.” Who acts: Horse, any, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 86

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“Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.”

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**Who acts:** Horse, any, you · **What happens:** say, remain, eat, give, come, reach · **To what, where:** portion, you, own stall, little sack · **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 (Horse, any, you), 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:pg21:15:86
# text = “Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
39	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	41	mark	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
56	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remain** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | any |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Horse *= horse* |  |  |  | now |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the Horse *= horse* | portion | you |  |  | for the sake of my own superior dignity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme for sake=Asset |
| 5 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **reach** *in a quote* | present | the Horse *= horse* | my own stall |  |  | evening |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stall=Theme |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the Horse *= horse* | a little sack | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sack=Theme |

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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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