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title: When you are up there it is the roof that's talking, not you." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When you are up there it is the roof that's talking, not you." Who acts: you, grudge, roof. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 4

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When you are up there it is the roof that's talking, not you."

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**Who acts:** you, grudge, roof · **What happens:** be, talk · **To what, where:** roof

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grudge, roof), 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:pg19994:12:4
# text = When you are up there it is the roof that's talking, not you."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | grudge | the roof |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | present · progressive | the roof |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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