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title: Is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?" Who acts: special food, you, food, divine nectar. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 5

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Is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?"

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**Who acts:** special food, you, food, divine nectar · **What happens:** be, eat, make, sing · **To what, where:** special food, divine nectar, you

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (special food, you, food, divine nectar), 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:pg19994:73:5
# text = Is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?"
1	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | any special food |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | you | any special food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | food | some divine nectar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present | some divine nectar | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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