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title: The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward f… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, “If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.” Who acts: Sheep, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, wi
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 91

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The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, “If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.”

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**Who acts:** Sheep, you · **What happens:** carry, say, treat, have · **To what, where:** viper, last, you, way, deserts, sharp teeth · **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 (Sheep, 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:pg21:15:91
# text = The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, “If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the Sheep | viper |  |  | time | backward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **treat** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | you |  | this way |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | would · perfect | you | your deserts |  | dog's sharp teeth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=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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