---
title: I simply cannot wait to embrace you! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: I simply cannot wait to embrace you! Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Cock and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/) / 9

# The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I simply cannot wait to embrace you!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not wait, embrace · **To what, where:** you

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg19994:70:9
# text = I simply cannot wait to embrace you!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | can | I |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **embrace** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/8/)
- next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/10/)
- ↑ back to [The Cock and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/)