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title: They then said in derision: “If you were foolish enough to sing all… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: They then said in derision: “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.” Who acts: Ants, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 68

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They then said in derision: “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”

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**Who acts:** Ants, you · **What happens:** say, be, sing, dance · **To what, where:** derision · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ants, 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:pg21:3:68
# text = They then said in derision: “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
22	supperless	supperless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | Ants *= ant* |  |  | derision | then |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in derision=Manner |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | enough, foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  | winter | supperless bed | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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