--- title: Come back and show us where we too can drink with safety." But he re… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: Come back and show us where we too can drink with safety." But he replied, "I'm afraid I can't yet: I want to go to the seaside, and this current will take me there nicely. Who acts: you, we, Heifer, I. A sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenbe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/1107/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/) / 1107 # Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 1107 Come back and show us where we too can drink with safety." But he replied, "I'm afraid I can't yet: I want to go to the seaside, and this current will take me there nicely. **Who acts:** you, we, Heifer, I, current · **What happens:** come back, show, drink, reply, be, want · **To what, where:** us, seaside, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, Heifer, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:1107 # text = Come back and show us where we too can drink with safety." But he replied, "I'm afraid I can't yet: I want to go to the seaside, and this current will take me there nicely. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 15 But but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 26 yet yet ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 seaside seaside NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 43 nicely nicely ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **show** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **drink** | can | we | | | | | with safety | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Heifer | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **want** | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | the seaside | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to seaside=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **take** | future | this current | | me | there | | nicely *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | 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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. 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