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title: His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you? Who acts: master, You. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 116

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His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you?

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**Who acts:** master, You · **What happens:** pretend, be, shake, say, sluggard, do · **To what, where:** stick, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, 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:pg21:16:116
# text = His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you?
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund |  | Dog's stick |  |  |  | at Dog | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Dog's master  one day |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sluggard** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | Dog's master  one day *= master* |  | you |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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