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title: The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.” Who acts: Goat, you, horn. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 103

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The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.”

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**Who acts:** Goat, you, horn · **What happens:** reply, fellow, speak, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat, you, horn), 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:pg21:4:103
# text = The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	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	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Goat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fellow** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | the horn |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Goat *= goat* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |

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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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