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title: But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. Who acts: egg, Countryman, Goose. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 3

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But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day.

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**Who acts:** egg, Countryman, Goose · **What happens:** not be, grow, give · **To what, where:** single golden egg, Countryman

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg, Countryman, Goose), 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:pg19994:82:3
# text = But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | egg |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Countryman |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Goose | a single golden egg | Countryman |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient egg=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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