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title: The Cat replied, “Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cat replied, “Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless;” and he made a meal of him. Who acts: Cat, you, Cock. 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 92

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The Cat replied, “Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless;” and he made a meal of him.

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**Who acts:** Cat, you, Cock · **What happens:** reply, abound, not remain, make · **To what, where:** specious apologies, meal · **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 (Cat, you, Cock), 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:pg21:4:92
# text = The Cat replied, “Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless;” and he made a meal of him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	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	,	_	16	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	specious	specious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	apologies	apology	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
17	supperless	supperless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **abound** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | specious apologies |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in apology=Location |
| 3 | **not** **remain** *in a quote* | shall | the Cat *= cat* |  |  |  |  | supperless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | Cock | a meal of man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product |

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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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