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title: Mother Mole saw she would have to get such conceit out of his head. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Mole saw she would have to get such conceit out of his head. Who acts: Mother. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mole and His Mother, sentence 4

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Mother Mole saw she would have to get such conceit out of his head.

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** see, have, get · **To what, where:** such conceit, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother), 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:pg19994:142:4
# text = Mother Mole saw she would have to get such conceit out of his head.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	conceit	conceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | would | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | Mother *not said here* | such conceit |  | Mole's head |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conceit=Stimulus |

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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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