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title: In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at once, “how can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you?” Who acts: limbs, you, lazy old fellow, that
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 51

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In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at once, “how can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you?”

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**Who acts:** limbs, you, lazy old fellow, that · **What happens:** not proceed, meet, fellow, cry, ride, lad · **To what, where:** limbs, manner, company, several tongues, pace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (limbs, you, lazy old fellow, that), 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:pg21:9:51
# text = In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at once, “how can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you?”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
45	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	advcl	_	_
48	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
49	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
52	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **proceed** | past · perfect · passive |  | limbs *= limb* |  | this manner |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | limbs *= limb* | a company of women and children |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **fellow** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | lazy old fellow | several tongues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ride** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | upon the beast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lad** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** *in a quote* | can | you *not said here* | pace |  |  |  | by the side of you; hardly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pace=Theme by side=Location |

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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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