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title: _Do not try to do impossible things. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Do not try to do impossible things. Who acts: _. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 6

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\_Do not try to do impossible things.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** not try, do · **To what, where:** impossible things

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides. 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:pg19994:65:6
# text = _Do not try to do impossible things.
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	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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** **try** | infinitive | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | \_ *not said here* | impossible things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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