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title: _Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality. Who acts: _, hopes, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 11

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\_Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality.

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**Who acts:** \_, hopes, your · **What happens:** not let, carry away, hope · **To what, where:** you, reality

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, hopes, your), 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:pg19994:51:11
# text = _Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	Do	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | infinitive | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry away** | present | your hopes | you |  | reality |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme from reality=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hope** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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