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title: "You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smilin… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. Who acts: Stork, Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 2

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"You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play.

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**Who acts:** Stork, Fox · **What happens:** come, dine, say, smile, go, play · **To what, where:** Stork, Fox, trick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stork, Fox), 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:pg19994:50:2
# text = "You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Stork	Stork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | must | the Stork *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dine** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Stork *= stork* *not said here* |  |  |  | today | with Fox | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fox |  | the Stork |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to stork=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **smile** | gerund | Fox *not said here* |  | Fox | the trick |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | Fox | the trick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **play** | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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