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title: The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus la… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: “I have brought it all on myself! Who acts: contrary, Mule. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 35

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The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: “I have brought it all on myself!

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**Who acts:** contrary, Mule · **What happens:** return, beat, lament, bring · **To what, where:** Ass, stall, death

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrary, Mule), 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:pg21:5:35
# text = The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: “I have brought it all on myself!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	lamented	lament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | contrary | the Ass *not said here* |  | contrary's stall |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Theme to stall=Destination |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  | contrary's stall *not said here* |  |  |  | to death; nearly *property* | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient to death=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **lament** | participle · passive |  | the Ass |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Mule *= mule* | death |  |  |  | on the Mule *= mule* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on myself=Destination |

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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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