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title: The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to clim… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to climb up and ride. Who acts: Miller, foolishness. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 6

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The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to climb up and ride.

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**Who acts:** Miller, foolishness · **What happens:** not like, laugh, tell, climb up, ride · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miller, foolishness), 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:pg19994:134:6
# text = The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to climb up and ride.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the Miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the Miller *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | foolishness |  | foolishness's son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **climb up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | foolishness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ride** | infinitive | foolishness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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