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title: The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it up and put it in his bosom to warm it back to life. Who acts: Farmer, Snake. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 3

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The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it up and put it in his bosom to warm it back to life.

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**Who acts:** Farmer, Snake · **What happens:** know, be, pick up, put, warm back, bosom · **To what, where:** cold, bosom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer, Snake), 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:pg19994:85:3
# text = The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it up and put it in his bosom to warm it back to life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the Farmer |  |  |  |  | deadly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **can** | could | the Snake |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick up** | past | Snake | cold |  |  | yet |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | Snake *not said here* | cold |  | Snake's bosom |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination |
| 5 | **warm back** | to-infinitive | Snake *not said here* | cold |  |  |  | to life | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **bosom** |  | Snake |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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