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title: _Do not attempt the impossible. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Do not attempt the impossible. Who acts: _. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 11

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\_Do not attempt the impossible.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** not attempt · **To what, where:** impossible

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_), 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:pg19994:6:11
# text = _Do not attempt the impossible.
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	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	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** **attempt** | infinitive | \_ | the impossible |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impossible=Eventuality |

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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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