--- title: "I want to get married," replied the Eagle, "and I can't find a mate… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: "I want to get married," replied the Eagle, "and I can't find a mate who can provide for me as I should like." Who acts: Eagle, mate. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/123/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Eagle and the Kite](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/123/) / 5 # The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 5 "I want to get married," replied the Eagle, "and I can't find a mate who can provide for me as I should like." **Who acts:** Eagle, mate · **What happens:** want, marry, reply, not find, provide, like · **To what, where:** mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Eagle, mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg19994:123:5 # text = "I want to get married," replied the Eagle, "and I can't find a mate who can provide for me as I should like." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the Eagle *= eagle* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the Eagle *= eagle* *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Eagle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | can | the Eagle *= eagle* | a mate | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 5 | **provide** *in a quote* | can | a mate | | | | | for the Eagle *= eagle* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for i=Recipient | | 6 | **like** *in a quote* | should | the Eagle *= eagle* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/123/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/123/6/) - ↑ back to [The Eagle and the Kite](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/123/)