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title: If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and sa… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and save you." Who acts: we, I. 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 9

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If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and save you."

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**Who acts:** we, I · **What happens:** happen, meet, step, save · **To what, where:** anything, you

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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 (we, I), 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:pg19994:81:9
# text = If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and save you."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | should | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **step** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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