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title: Now I promise you a full-grown Bull, if you but make the thief go aw… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I promise you a full-grown Bull, if you but make the thief go away!" Who acts: I, thief. 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 9

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Now I promise you a full-grown Bull, if you but make the thief go away!"

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**Who acts:** I, thief · **What happens:** promise, grow, make, go away · **To what, where:** grown Bull, you, 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 (I, thief), 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:pg19994:126:9
# text = Now I promise you a full-grown Bull, if you but make the thief go away!"
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	ccomp	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I | a grown Bull | you |  | now |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal bull=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | I *not said here* | the thief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go away** | infinitive | the thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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