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title: But just take a look at yourself, and then try some of your own medi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But just take a look at yourself, and then try some of your own medicine. Who acts: you, your. 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 6

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But just take a look at yourself, and then try some of your own medicine.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** take, try, medicine · **To what, where:** look, some

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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 (you, your), 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:pg19994:110:6
# text = But just take a look at yourself, and then try some of your own medicine.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a look |  |  |  | at yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at yourself=Asset |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some |  |  | then |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality |
| 3 | **medicine** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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