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title: After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy, the Butterfly took a tender leave of his sweetheart. Who acts: many, Butterfly. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 4

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After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy, the Butterfly took a tender leave of his sweetheart.

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**Who acts:** many, Butterfly · **What happens:** whisper, take, vow · **To what, where:** vows, tender leave, constancy

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Butterfly), 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:pg19994:113:4
# text = After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy, the Butterfly took a tender leave of his sweetheart.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	constancy	constancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | many | vows of constancy |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Butterfly | a tender leave of Butterfly's sweetheart |  |  | after much pretty love making |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **vow** |  |  | constancy |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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