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title: But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. Who acts: war, SOLDIER. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 35

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But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.

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**Who acts:** war, SOLDIER · **What happens:** be over, allow, eat, make, carry, subject · **To what, where:** chaff, Monkey, SOLDIER, heavy loads

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, SOLDIER), 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:pg21:6:35
# text = But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	chaff	chaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	subjecting	subject	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	slavish	slavish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	drudgery	drudgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be over** | past | the war |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | past | SOLDIER | chaff | Monkey |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal chaff=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | SOLDIER *not said here* | chaff *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | SOLDIER *not said here* | SOLDIER |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive | SOLDIER *not said here* | heavy loads of wood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 6 | **subject** | gerund | SOLDIER *not said here* | SOLDIER |  |  |  | to much slavish drudgery and ill treatment | tree rules |

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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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