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title: Isn't it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth withou… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Isn't it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?" Who acts: head, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 13

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Isn't it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?"

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**Who acts:** head, you · **What happens:** not be, take, snap off · **To what, where:** head, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, you), 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:pg19994:16:13
# text = Isn't it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?"
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | head |  |  |  |  | enough, let *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you | your head |  | my mouth |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme out mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **snap off** | gerund | you *not said here* | head |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

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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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