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title: "You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of yourself!" Who acts: You, Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 9

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"You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of yourself!"

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**Who acts:** You, Fox · **What happens:** pretend, be, say, not take · **To what, where:** king, care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fox), 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:pg19994:120:9
# text = "You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of yourself!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | our king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | can | Fox *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of yourself=Initial\_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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