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title: "You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught yo… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with the thieving Cranes and you will have to share the same punishment with them." Who acts: Farmer, good bird. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 7

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"You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with the thieving Cranes and you will have to share the same punishment with them."

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**Who acts:** Farmer, good bird · **What happens:** be, answer, catch, thieve, have, share · **To what, where:** good bird, Farmer, same punishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer, good bird), 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:pg19994:23:7
# text = "You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with the thieving Cranes and you will have to share the same punishment with them."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | the Farmer *= farmer* | a good bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a good bird |  | the Farmer |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality |
| 3 | **catch** *in a quote* | past | a good bird *= bird* | the Farmer *= farmer* |  |  |  | with the thieving Cranes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **thieve** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | future | the Farmer *= farmer* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **share** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Farmer *= farmer* *not said here* | the same punishment |  |  |  | with Cranes *= crane* | 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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