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title: You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes." Who acts: You, yourselves. 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 14

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You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."

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**Who acts:** You, yourselves · **What happens:** have, ask, blame · **To what, where:** yourselves

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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 (You, yourselves), 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:pg19994:27:14
# text = You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | yourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blame** | to-infinitive | yourselves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your misfortunes | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for misfortune=Attribute |

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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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