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title: If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the little blood I have left." Who acts: you, greedy swarm, I. 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 7

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If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the little blood I have left."

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**Who acts:** you, greedy swarm, I · **What happens:** drive away, come, take, leave · **To what, where:** flies, little blood

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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 (you, greedy swarm, I), 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:pg19994:108:7
# text = If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the little blood I have left."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | flies *= fly* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | future | another greedy swarm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | another greedy swarm *not said here* | the little blood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present · perfect | I | the little blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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