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title: "Mr. Toad," he said, "I've been told that you cure anything! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mr. Toad," he said, "I've been told that you cure anything! Who acts: Toad, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 5

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"Mr. Toad," he said, "I've been told that you cure anything!

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**Who acts:** Toad, you · **What happens:** say, tell, cure · **To what, where:** Toad, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, 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:pg19994:110:5
# text = "Mr. Toad," he said, "I've been told that you cure anything!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cure	cure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Toad  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Toad  Mr. *= toad* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cure** *in a quote* | present | you | anything |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer anything=Source |

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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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