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title: I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich, and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome profit of me.” Who acts: I, large fish, you, me. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 11

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I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome profit of me.”

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**Who acts:** I, large fish, you, me · **What happens:** become, fit, catch, make, profit · **To what, where:** me, handsome profit

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, large fish, you, me), 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:pg21:9:11
# text = I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome profit of me.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | present | a large fish |  |  |  |  | for the tables of the rich | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | can | you | me |  |  | then; again |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a handsome profit of me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product |
| 5 | **profit** |  | me |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession intransitive»: of=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:** «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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