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title: _Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. Who acts: Gentleness. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 13

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\_Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.

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**Who acts:** Gentleness · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** force fail

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gentleness), 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:pg19994:143:13
# text = _Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bluster	bluster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | Gentleness and kind persuasion | force fail |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP 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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