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title: A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all ani… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. Who acts: BEAR, Fox. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 20

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A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.

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**Who acts:** BEAR, Fox · **What happens:** boast, say, be, have, not touch, regard · **To what, where:** much, most tender, regard, such respect, dead body · **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 (BEAR, Fox), 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:pg21:4:20
# text = A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BEAR	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	boasted	boast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	philanthropy	philanthropy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | participle | a BEAR *not said here* | much of Fox's philanthropy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a BEAR *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Fox | the most tender |  | Fox's regard for man |  | of all animals | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Fox | such respect |  |  |  | for man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | would | Fox | Fox's dead body |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **regard** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  | for man | nom regard «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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