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title: "The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. Who acts: finest. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 4

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"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it.

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**Who acts:** finest · **What happens:** say, jump in, try · **To what, where:** crafty Fox, Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finest), 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:pg19994:75:4
# text = "The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the finest | the crafty Fox |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 2 | **jump in** *in a quote* | infinitive | the finest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | the finest *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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