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title: _Learn from my fate not to take pity on a scoundrel. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Learn from my fate not to take pity on a scoundrel. Who acts: you, my. 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 7

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\_Learn from my fate not to take pity on a scoundrel.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** learn, not take, fate · **To what, where:** fate, pity, scoundrel

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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 (you, my), 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:pg19994:85:7
# text = _Learn from my fate not to take pity on a scoundrel.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scoundrel	scoundrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | my fate |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fate=Source |
| 2 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | pity |  | a scoundrel |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on scoundrel=Destination |
| 3 | **fate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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