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title: We are very well, thank you, and more so, if _you_ only keep away fr… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: We are very well, thank you, and more so, if _you_ only keep away from here." Who acts: We, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Birds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 9

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We are very well, thank you, and more so, if \_you\_ only keep away from here."

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**Who acts:** We, you · **What happens:** be, thank, keep away · **To what, where:** more, you

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you), 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:pg19994:89:9
# text = We are very well, thank you, and more so, if _you_ only keep away from here."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  | more | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep away** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from here=Eventuality |

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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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