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title: "You would be wiser," said an old acquaintance, "to keep quietly out… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "You would be wiser," said an old acquaintance, "to keep quietly out of sight with that clog. Who acts: You, wiser. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mischievous Dog, sentence 4

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"You would be wiser," said an old acquaintance, "to keep quietly out of sight with that clog.

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**Who acts:** You, wiser · **What happens:** be, say, keep · **To what, where:** old acquaintance, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wiser), 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:pg19994:112:4
# text = "You would be wiser," said an old acquaintance, "to keep quietly out of sight with that clog.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	clog	clog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | would | You |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wiser | a old acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wiser *not said here* |  |  | sight |  | with that clog; quietly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out sight=Location |

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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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