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title: One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out i… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together. Who acts: Brass Pot, Pots. 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 2

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One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together.

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**Who acts:** Brass Pot, Pots · **What happens:** propose, go out · **To what, where:** Earthen Pot, world

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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 (Brass Pot, Pots), 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:pg19994:81:2
# text = One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Brass	Brass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Pot	Pot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | the Brass Pot |  | the Earthen Pot |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pot=Recipient |
| 2 | **go out** | present | Pots *= pot* |  |  | the world |  | out, together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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