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title: _When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. Who acts: _, weak. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 7

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\_When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it.

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**Who acts:** \_, weak · **What happens:** fall out, suffer

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, weak), 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:pg19994:83:7
# text = _When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** | infinitive | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | must | the weak |  |  |  |  | for marsh | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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