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title: _We are often not so eager for what we seek, after we have found it. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _We are often not so eager for what we seek, after we have found it. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 10

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\_We are often not so eager for what we seek, after we have found it.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** not be, seek, find · **To what, where:** thief

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg19994:126:10
# text = _We are often not so eager for what we seek, after we have found it.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | eager, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | present · perfect | we | thief |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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