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title: "Take good care of the house, my son," she said to the Kid, as she c… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take good care of the house, my son," she said to the Kid, as she carefully latched the door. " Who acts: Kid, house. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 2

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"Take good care of the house, my son," she said to the Kid, as she carefully latched the door. "

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**Who acts:** Kid, house · **What happens:** take, say, latch, care · **To what, where:** good care, Kid, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kid, house), 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:pg19994:137:2
# text = "Take good care of the house, my son," she said to the Kid, as she carefully latched the door. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	latched	latch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | the Kid *= kid* *not said here* | good care of the house |  |  |  | my son *vocative* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kid |  | the Kid |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to kid=Recipient |
| 3 | **latch** | past | Kid | the door |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **care** *in a quote* |  | the house |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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