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title: _Stick to your trade. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Stick to your trade. Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 13

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\_Stick to your trade.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** stick, trade

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg19994:62:13
# text = _Stick to your trade.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stick	stick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your trade | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to trade=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **trade** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: 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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