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title: He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out. Who acts: Wolf. 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 5

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He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** be, reach, pull out · **To what, where:** bone, bill

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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 (Wolf), 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:pg19994:16:5
# text = He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  | that she; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able, easily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* | the bone |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 4 | **pull out** | present | Wolf *not said here* | bill |  |  |  |  | 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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