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title: But I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will by and by confer on me a greater benefit.” Who acts: I. 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 88

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But I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will by and by confer on me a greater benefit.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not think, refuse · **To what, where:** me

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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 (I), 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:pg21:15:88
# text = But I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will by and by confer on me a greater benefit.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	confer	confer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | can | I |  |  |  |  | that you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | present |  | me |  |  | now |  | 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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