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title: But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can." Who acts: I, tune. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 13

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But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can."

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**Who acts:** I, tune · **What happens:** want, dance, be · **To what, where:** tune

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tune), 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:pg19994:3:13
# text = But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
3	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | I | a tune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dance** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a tune *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | a tune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long, merry *property* | 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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