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title: "I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone." Who acts: starving Grasshopper, I, busy making music. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants and the Grasshopper, with its dependency tree and
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 4

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"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

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**Who acts:** starving Grasshopper, I, busy making music · **What happens:** not have, store up, whine, be, make, know · **To what, where:** food, Grasshopper, busy making music

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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 (starving Grasshopper, I, busy making music), 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:pg19994:34:4
# text = "I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	whined	whine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past · do-support | a starving Grasshopper *= grasshopper* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **store up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a starving Grasshopper *= grasshopper* *not said here* | any food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **whine** | past | I *not said here* | the Grasshopper |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a starving Grasshopper *= grasshopper* |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | past | a starving Grasshopper *= grasshopper* | busy making music |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | busy making music |  |  |  |  | gone *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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