---
title: "I've learned that all round things are not eggs," he said groaning. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "I've learned that all round things are not eggs," he said groaning. Who acts: Dog, round things. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Dog and the Oyster](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/) / 7

# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"I've learned that all round things are not eggs," he said groaning.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Dog, round things · **What happens:** learn, not be, say, groan · **To what, where:** eggs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, round things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg19994:90:7
# text = "I've learned that all round things are not eggs," he said groaning.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | all round things | eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **groan** | gerund | Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/8/)
- ↑ back to [The Dog and the Oyster](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/)