--- title: If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an i… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me.” Who acts: you, butcher, shearer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, butcher, shearer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:7:32 # text = If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me.” 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 fleece fleece NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 30 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 shearer shearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 shear shear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | my flesh | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | the butcher | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **kill** | future | the butcher | me | | a instant | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | my fleece and wool | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fleece=Theme | | 5 | **be** | present | the shearer | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **shear** | future | the shearer | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **hurt** | infinitive | the shearer *not said here* | me | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | 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. **Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/33/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/)