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title: But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again. 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 2

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But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** take, not draw out · **To what, where:** great fistful, hand

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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:pg19994:10:2
# text = But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fistful	fistful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Boy | such great fistful |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fistful=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **draw out** | could | Boy | Boy's hand |  |  | again |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

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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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