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title: Do you think you can move the wagon by simply looking at it and whin… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you think you can move the wagon by simply looking at it and whining about it? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 7

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Do you think you can move the wagon by simply looking at it and whining about it?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** think, move, look, whine · **To what, where:** wagon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. 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:pg19994:11:7
# text = Do you think you can move the wagon by simply looking at it and whining about it?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	whining	whine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | can | you | the wagon |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at wagon; simply *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **whine** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about wagon | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

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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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