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title: _Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of anoth… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness. Who acts: fun. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 6

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\_Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

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**Who acts:** fun · **What happens:** stop, think, not be · **To what, where:** cause · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fun), 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:pg19994:32:6
# text = _Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | may | your fun | the cause |  |  |  | of another's unhappiness | 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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