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title: Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemake… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, “I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried.” Who acts: man, gardene
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 88

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Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, “I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried.”

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**Who acts:** man, gardener, dry weather, sun · **What happens:** go, marry, inquire, fare, reply, want · **To what, where:** daughter, one wish, bricks · **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 (man, gardener, dry weather, sun), 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:pg21:6:88
# text = Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, “I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried.”
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tilemaker	tilemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
51	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
55	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	61	mark	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	fixed	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
59	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  | to the daughter; after *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of gardener; likewise *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of she=Recipient |
| 4 | **fare** | past | gardener |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | gardener |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **want** *in a quote* | present | gardener |  |  |  |  | for nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | one wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 8 | **continue** *in a quote* | may | the dry weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **shine** *in a quote* | infinitive | the sun |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **dry** *in a quote* | might · passive |  | the bricks |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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