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title: A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get som… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Filberts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Filberts, sentence 1

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A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** give, be, put, get · **To what, where:** given permission, hand, pitcher, filberts

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Filberts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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:pg19994:10:1
# text = A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	filberts	filbert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a Boy | given permission |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | Boy's hand |  | a pitcher |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | some filberts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer filbert=Stimulus |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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