--- title: The Stag replied: “Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Stag replied: “Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favourable opportunity of effecting my escape.” Who acts: Stag, favourable opportunity, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, favourable opportunity, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:7:41 # text = The Stag replied: “Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favourable opportunity of effecting my escape.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Stag Stag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 undertake undertake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 25 favourable favourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 effecting effect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 escape escape NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Stag | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **allow** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the Stag *= stag* | | | friend *vocative* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **undertake** *in a quote* | future | the Stag *= stag* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Stag *= stag* *not said here* | some favourable opportunity | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic | | 6 | **effect** *in a quote* | gerund | some favourable opportunity *not said here* | my escape | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **escape** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/42/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/)