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title: The Fox replied, “Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if you… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fox replied, “Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your speech.” Who acts: Fox, deeds, hands, your. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 84

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The Fox replied, “Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your speech.”

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**Who acts:** Fox, deeds, hands, your · **What happens:** reply, thank, be, have, not be, word · **To what, where:** you, traitors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, deeds, hands, your), 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:pg21:8:84
# text = The Fox replied, “Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your speech.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	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	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	thanked	thank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	fervently	fervently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	traitors	traitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | should · perfect | the Fox *= fox* |  | you |  |  | indeed *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | your deeds |  |  |  |  | as your words; fervently, good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | your hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | participle |  | traitors |  |  |  | to your speech | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **speak** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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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