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title: "To win you I would have said and promised anything," replied the Ki… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "To win you I would have said and promised anything," replied the Kite. Who acts: Kite. 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 14

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"To win you I would have said and promised anything," replied the Kite.

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**Who acts:** Kite · **What happens:** win, say, promise, reply · **To what, where:** you, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kite), 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:pg19994:123:14
# text = "To win you I would have said and promised anything," replied the Kite.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would · perfect | the Kite *= kite* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | the Kite *= kite* *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Kite |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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