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description: The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.” Who acts: Fuller, arrangement, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 80

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The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”

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**Who acts:** Fuller, arrangement, you · **What happens:** reply, be, whiten, blacken · **To what, where:** whatever · **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 (Fuller, arrangement, 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:pg21:3:80
# text = The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fuller	Fuller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	whiten	whiten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	blacken	blacken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Fuller |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the arrangement |  |  |  |  | far, impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Fuller *= fuller* |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **whiten** *in a quote* | should | the Fuller *= fuller* | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient |
| 5 | **blacken** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  | again | with your charcoal; immediately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with charcoal=Instrument |

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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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