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title: Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everyth… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect. Who acts: wonderful Bird, everything. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 12

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Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect.

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**Who acts:** wonderful Bird, everything · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** lovely voice

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful Bird, everything), 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:pg19994:132:12
# text = Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | should | such wonderful Bird | a lovely voice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | everything |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | 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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