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title: "Well sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle ri… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle right down to enjoy your singing. Who acts: Owl, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 15

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"Well sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle right down to enjoy your singing.

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**Who acts:** Owl, your · **What happens:** say, stay, go, settle, enjoy, sing · **To what, where:** singing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owl, your), 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:pg19994:28:15
# text = "Well sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle right down to enjoy your singing.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Owl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | must | Owl |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Owl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **settle** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Owl *not said here* | your singing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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