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title: “WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” sai… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep. Who acts: fear, slaughter. 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 98

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“WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep.

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**Who acts:** fear, slaughter · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** slaughter, Wolves, Sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fear, slaughter), 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:pg21:5:98
# text = “WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	WHY	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	SHOULD	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | this fear | slaughter |  |  |  | between us | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | slaughter | the Wolves | the Sheep |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic to sheep=Recipient |

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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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