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title: "Have you heard the wonderful news?" cried the Fox in a very joyful… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Have you heard the wonderful news?" cried the Fox in a very joyful and excited manner. Who acts: you, Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 4

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"Have you heard the wonderful news?" cried the Fox in a very joyful and excited manner.

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**Who acts:** you, Fox · **What happens:** hear, cry · **To what, where:** wonderful news, joyful manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg19994:70:4
# text = "Have you heard the wonderful news?" cried the Fox in a very joyful and excited manner.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | you | the wonderful news |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Fox |  |  | a joyful manner |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |

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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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