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title: As for you, you can use your legs so well that I should have little… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: As for you, you can use your legs so well that I should have little chance of collecting the debt if I had to catch you for it!" Who acts: you, I, little chance. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 9

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As for you, you can use your legs so well that I should have little chance of collecting the debt if I had to catch you for it!"

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**Who acts:** you, I, little chance · **What happens:** use, have, collect, catch · **To what, where:** legs, little chance, debt, you

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, little chance), 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:pg19994:124:9
# text = As for you, you can use your legs so well that I should have little chance of collecting the debt if I had to catch you for it!"
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | can | you | your legs |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | should | I | little chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 3 | **collect** | gerund | little chance *not said here* | the debt |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | for debt | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Beneficiary |

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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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