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title: Send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become." Who acts: you, good friends. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 6

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Send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become."

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**Who acts:** you, good friends · **What happens:** send away, see, become · **To what, where:** Dogs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good friends), 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:pg19994:145:6
# text = Send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become."
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send away** | imperative | you *not said here* | Dogs *= dog* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | shall | good friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |

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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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