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title: "Do you really think you can provide for me?" asked the Eagle eagerly. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do you really think you can provide for me?" asked the Eagle eagerly. Who acts: you, 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 7

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"Do you really think you can provide for me?" asked the Eagle eagerly.

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**Who acts:** you, Eagle · **What happens:** provide, ask · **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, 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:pg19994:123:7
# text = "Do you really think you can provide for me?" asked the Eagle eagerly.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** *in a quote* | can · present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | for the Eagle *= eagle* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for i=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Eagle |  |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: 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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