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title: _Take warning from the misfortunes of others. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Take warning from the misfortunes of others. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 10

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\_Take warning from the misfortunes of others.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** warning, misfortunes

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg19994:100:10
# text = _Take warning from the misfortunes of others.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | warning |  | the misfortunes of others |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent warning=Theme from misfortune=Initial\_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:** «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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