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title: As the days passed, the wheat stalks grew tall and the young birds,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: As the days passed, the wheat stalks grew tall and the young birds, too, grew in strength. Who acts: days, wheat stalks. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 2

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As the days passed, the wheat stalks grew tall and the young birds, too, grew in strength.

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**Who acts:** days, wheat stalks · **What happens:** pass, grow · **To what, where:** strength

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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 (days, wheat stalks), 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:pg19994:130:2
# text = As the days passed, the wheat stalks grew tall and the young birds, too, grew in strength.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the days |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the wheat stalks |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the wheat stalks *not said here* |  |  | strength |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strength=Location |

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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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