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title: Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search." Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 6

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Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search."

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** spare, leave, search · **To what, where:** energy, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg19994:80:6
# text = Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search."
1	Spare	spare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	unturned	unturned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | imperative | you *not said here* | no energy |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent energy=Asset |
| 2 | **leave** | present | you *not said here* | no spot |  |  |  | unturned *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 3 | **search** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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