--- title: "If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: "If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in." Who acts: you, Goat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Goat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg19994:75:10 # text = "If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 26 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 cautious cautious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 30 about about SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 in in ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | much sense | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | beard and old fellow | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Goat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run** | past | Goat | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | would · perfect | you | | | | | cautious *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **find** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | a way | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 7 | **get out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a way *not said here* | | | again | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **jump in** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/11/) - ↑ back to [The Fox and the Goat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/)