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title: Say rather '_we_ have found a purse' and 'how lucky _we_ are.' — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Say rather '_we_ have found a purse' and 'how lucky _we_ are.' Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 6

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Say rather '\_we\_ have found a purse' and 'how lucky \_we\_ are.'

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** say, find, be · **To what, where:** purse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg19994:25:6
# text = Say rather '_we_ have found a purse' and 'how lucky _we_ are.'
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | perfect | we | a purse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | 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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