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title: Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?” Who acts: covey. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 106

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Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?”

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**Who acts:** covey · **What happens:** chirp, sleep, call, answer · **To what, where:** you, covey, birds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (covey), 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:pg21:8:106
# text = Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?”
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	chirp	chirp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	covey	covey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chirp** | would |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  | the covey |  |  |  | for you | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the covey *not said here* |  | birds |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=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:** «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.

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