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title: "How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? Who acts: Jupiter, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 13

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"How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content?

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, you · **What happens:** cry, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, 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:pg19994:27:13
# text = "How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Jupiter |  |  |  | now |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | yet | content *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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