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title: "My boy," said his mother, "be satisfied with half the nuts you have… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "My boy," said his mother, "be satisfied with half the nuts you have taken and you will easily get your hand out. Who acts: boy, you. 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 5

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"My boy," said his mother, "be satisfied with half the nuts you have taken and you will easily get your hand out.

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**Who acts:** boy, you · **What happens:** say, be, take, get out · **To what, where:** mother, nuts, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you), 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:pg19994:10:5
# text = "My boy," said his mother, "be satisfied with half the nuts you have taken and you will easily get your hand out.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My boy | Boy's mother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with half nuts; satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | half nuts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 4 | **get out** *in a quote* | future | you | your hand |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |

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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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