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title: So be thankful, my child, that you escaped with your life, and, as l… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So be thankful, my child, that you escaped with your life, and, as long as you live, never judge people by their looks." Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 19

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So be thankful, my child, that you escaped with your life, and, as long as you live, never judge people by their looks."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, escape, live, not judge · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg19994:76:19
# text = So be thankful, my child, that you escaped with your life, and, as long as you live, never judge people by their looks."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** | past | you |  |  |  |  | with your life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **judge** | infinitive |  | people |  |  |  | by people's looks; long *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value |

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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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