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title: "Take me," said the Kite; "I am very strong, stronger even than you!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take me," said the Kite; "I am very strong, stronger even than you!" Who acts: you, Kite, Eagle. 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 6

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"Take me," said the Kite; "I am very strong, stronger even than you!"

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**Who acts:** you, Kite, Eagle · **What happens:** take, say, be · **To what, where:** Kite · **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 (you, Kite, Eagle), 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:pg19994:123:6
# text = "Take me," said the Kite; "I am very strong, stronger even than you!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Kite *= kite* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Kite |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Eagle *= eagle* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the Eagle *= eagle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than you | 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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