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title: The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?” Who acts: Horse, maste
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 37

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The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?”

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**Who acts:** Horse, master · **What happens:** fall down, say, go, transform, expect, turn · **To what, where:** straightway, weight, master, foot, Horse, Ass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Horse, master), 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:pg21:6:37
# text = The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	again	again	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	from	from	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | the Horse | straightway |  | the weight |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Horse *not said here* |  | SOLDIER's master |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | must | SOLDIER's master *= master* |  |  | foot | now | to the war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **transform** *in a quote* | present · perfect | SOLDIER's master *= master* | the Horse *= horse* |  |  |  | into a Ass *result*; from a Horse | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient from horse=Initial\_State into ass=Result |
| 5 | **expect** *in a quote* | can | SOLDIER's master *= master* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** *in a quote* | can | the Horse *= horse* |  |  | a Ass | again; moment | to a Horse *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from ass=Initial\_State to horse=Result |

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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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