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title: Though Jupiter may not give him the prize, I know that he is the pre… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Though Jupiter may not give him the prize, I know that he is the prettiest, the sweetest, the dearest darling in the world." Who acts: Jupiter, I. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Jupiter and the Monkey, sentence 8

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Though Jupiter may not give him the prize, I know that he is the prettiest, the sweetest, the dearest darling in the world."

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, I · **What happens:** not give, know, be · **To what, where:** prize, laugh, dearest darling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, I), 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:pg19994:139:8
# text = Though Jupiter may not give him the prize, I know that he is the prettiest, the sweetest, the dearest darling in the world."
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | may | Jupiter | the prize | laugh |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient prize=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Jupiter |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Jupiter *not said here* | the dearest darling in the world |  |  |  |  | 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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