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title: “Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. Who acts: disposed Dogs. 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 99

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“Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for.

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**Who acts:** disposed Dogs · **What happens:** dispose, have, answer · **To what, where:** much

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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 (disposed Dogs), 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:pg21:5:99
# text = “Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | that disposed Dogs | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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