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title: A few days later, the wheat was so ripe, that when the wind shook th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A few days later, the wheat was so ripe, that when the wind shook the stalks, a hail of wheat grains came rustling down on the young Larks' heads. Who acts: wheat, wind, that, wheat grains. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 10

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A few days later, the wheat was so ripe, that when the wind shook the stalks, a hail of wheat grains came rustling down on the young Larks' heads.

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**Who acts:** wheat, wind, that, wheat grains · **What happens:** be, shake, come, rustle down, hail · **To what, where:** stalks, heads

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheat, wind, that, wheat grains), 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:pg19994:130:10
# text = A few days later, the wheat was so ripe, that when the wind shook the stalks, a hail of wheat grains came rustling down on the young Larks' heads.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
26	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Larks	lark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wheat |  |  |  |  | late, ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | past | the wind | the stalks |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rustle down** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  | the young Larks's heads |  | down *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 5 | **hail** |  | wheat grains |  |  |  |  |  | nom hail «phenomenon 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:** «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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