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title: How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full o… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks. Who acts: yard. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 5

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How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks.

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**Who acts:** yard · **What happens:** hatch, be · **To what, where:** lot

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard), 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:pg19994:103:5
# text = How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | future · passive |  | lot |  |  |  | all *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | the yard |  |  |  |  | of fine young chicks; full *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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