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title: "What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything awa… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants and the Grasshopper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 2

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"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cry, not store away · **To what, where:** Ants, surprise, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants 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:pg19994:34:2
# text = "What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stored	store	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the Ants |  | surprise |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **store away** *in a quote* | present | you | anything |  |  | winter | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

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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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