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title: Very well; now dance!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Very well; now dance!" 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 7

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Very well; now dance!"

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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: 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:pg19994:34:7
# text = Very well; now dance!"
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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