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title: I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it wer… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!" Who acts: I, Ostrich. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 10

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I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!"

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**Who acts:** I, Ostrich · **What happens:** be, carry away · **To what, where:** Ostrich, talons

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ostrich), 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:pg19994:123:10
# text = I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry away** | can | I | a Ostrich |  | my talons |  | away *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ostrich=Value in talon=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ostrich |  |  |  |  | as a feather | tree rules |

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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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