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title: They have taken all they can hold. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They have taken all they can hold. Who acts: flies. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 6

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They have taken all they can hold.

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**Who acts:** flies · **What happens:** take, hold · **To what, where:** all

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flies), 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:pg19994:108:6
# text = They have taken all they can hold.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | flies *= fly* | all |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | can | flies *= fly* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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