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title: A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, “Oh! that y… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, “Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.” Who acts: Fox hearing, Bear. 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 21

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A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, “Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.”

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**Who acts:** Fox hearing, Bear · **What happens:** say, eat · **To what, where:** Bear, dead · **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 (Fox hearing, Bear), 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:pg21:4:21
# text = A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, “Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | a Fox hearing |  | the Bear |  |  | with a smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | would | the Bear *= bear* | the dead and the living |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=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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