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title: "Don't let that keep you at home," urged the Brass Pot. " — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Don't let that keep you at home," urged the Brass Pot. " Who acts: you, that. 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 7

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"Don't let that keep you at home," urged the Brass Pot. "

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** not let, keep, urge · **To what, where:** that, you, home, Brass Pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, that), 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:pg19994:81:7
# text = "Don't let that keep you at home," urged the Brass Pot. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Brass	Brass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | that *not said here* | you |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **urge** | past |  | the Brass Pot |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Recipient |

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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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