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title: If you can cure yourself of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gai… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: If you can cure yourself of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait, someone might believe you. Who acts: you, someone. 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 7

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If you can cure yourself of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait, someone might believe you.

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**Who acts:** you, someone · **What happens:** cure, believe · **To what, where:** yourself, you

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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, someone), 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:pg19994:110:7
# text = If you can cure yourself of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait, someone might believe you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	blotchy	blotchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	rheumatic	rheumatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gait	gait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | yourself |  |  |  | of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer yourself=Source of skin=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | might | someone | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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