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title: Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. Who acts: Sheep. 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 132

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Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.

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**Who acts:** Sheep · **What happens:** unwill, lose, withdraw, burst, lament, disappoint · **To what, where:** filberts, hand, tears, disappointment

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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 (Sheep), 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:pg21:4:132
# text = Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.
1	Unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	filberts	filbert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unwill** | gerund | Sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive | Sheep *not said here* | Sheep's filberts |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filbert=Eventuality |
| 3 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | Sheep *not said here* | Sheep's hand |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **burst** | past | Sheep |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lament** | past | Sheep *not said here* | Sheep's disappointment |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disappointment=Stimulus |
| 6 | **disappoint** |  | Sheep |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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