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title: You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!" Who acts: You. 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 9

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You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!"

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** respect, leave, sleep · **To what, where:** age, least, me, quiet

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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 (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:pg19994:28:9
# text = You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!"
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obl	_	_
5	respect	respect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | should | You | my age |  | least |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | You *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | quiet |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in quiet=Location |

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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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