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title: Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 9

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Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** take, carry, see, hold · **To what, where:** hold, you, air, whole countryside, stick

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg19994:4:9
# text = Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | hold of this stick |  |  |  | with your teeth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | future | we | you |  | the air |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in air=Location |
| 3 | **see** | can | you | the whole countryside |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer countryside=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | this stick |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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