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title: The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her hea… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf's throat. Who acts: you, Crane. 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 7

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The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf's throat.

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**Who acts:** you, Crane · **What happens:** imagine, be, put · **To what, where:** Crane, head, throat

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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 (you, Crane), 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:pg19994:16:7
# text = The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf's throat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | can | you | the Crane *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crane=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Crane |  |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | the Crane *not said here* | her head |  | a Wolf's throat |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in throat=Destination |

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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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