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title: The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Who acts: hair. 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 80

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The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** not wish, become, be, remove, find · **To what, where:** wife, gray hair

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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 (hair), 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:pg21:5:80
# text = The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	zealous	zealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the wife of a old man |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | equally, zealous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remove** | gerund |  | every gray hair |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | could | hair | every gray hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic |

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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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