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title: The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very lo… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long. Who acts: Earthen Pot. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 11

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The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long.

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**Who acts:** Earthen Pot · **What happens:** not survive, sort · **To what, where:** sort, companionship

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earthen Pot), 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:pg19994:81:11
# text = The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	companionship	companionship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **survive** | could | the Earthen Pot | that sort of companionship |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Circumstance |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | companionship |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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