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title: The Snake soon revived, and when it had enough strength, bit the man… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Snake soon revived, and when it had enough strength, bit the man who had been so kind to it. Who acts: Snake, cold, man. 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 4

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The Snake soon revived, and when it had enough strength, bit the man who had been so kind to it.

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**Who acts:** Snake, cold, man · **What happens:** revive, have, bite, be · **To what, where:** enough strength, man, cold

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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 (Snake, cold, man), 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:pg19994:85:4
# text = The Snake soon revived, and when it had enough strength, bit the man who had been so kind to it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revive** | past | the Snake |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | cold | enough strength |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 3 | **bite** | past | the Snake *not said here* | the man |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | the man |  | cold |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

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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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