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title: Stop your crying, or I will give you to the Wolf!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Stop your crying, or I will give you to the Wolf!" Who acts: you, I, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 4

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Stop your crying, or I will give you to the Wolf!"

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**Who acts:** you, I, your · **What happens:** stop, give, cry · **To what, where:** crying, you

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother 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, I, your), 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:pg19994:121:4
# text = Stop your crying, or I will give you to the Wolf!"
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	crying	crying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | your crying |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crying=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | future | I |  | you |  |  | to the Wolf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to wolf=Recipient |
| 3 | **cry** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom crying «act transitive»: poss=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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