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title: One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and liv… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. Who acts: Hare, friends. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dep
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 79

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One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened.

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**Who acts:** Hare, friends · **What happens:** meet, entreat, come, live, say, be · **To what, where:** friend, Hare, better neighbors, housekeeping expenses · **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 (Hare, friends), 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:pg21:3:79
# text = One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fuller	full	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	housekeeping	housekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	lessened	lessen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Hare | a friend |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **entreat** | past | Hare *not said here* | Hare |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Hare | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | should | friends *= friend* | better neighbors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lessen** | would · passive |  | friends's housekeeping expenses |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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