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title: I'll show him who is fit to be king, he or I." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll show him who is fit to be king, he or I." Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 5

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I'll show him who is fit to be king, he or I."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** I., Wolf, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg19994:29:5
# text = I'll show him who is fit to be king, he or I."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | future | I | I. | Wolf |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | king |  |  |  |  | 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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