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title: Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from O… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods. Who acts: I, Olympus. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 16

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Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods.

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**Who acts:** I, Olympus · **What happens:** think, have, send, tell, sing · **To what, where:** wonderful wine, me, Olympus, I, high gods · **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 (I, Olympus), 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:pg19994:28:16
# text = Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
25	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  | now | of singing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | a wonderful wine |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past |  | me |  | Olympus |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from olympus=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient drink=Topic |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Olympus |  | the high gods |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient |

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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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