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title: The young Larks in their nest close by were much frightened, for the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The young Larks in their nest close by were much frightened, for they knew they would be in great danger if they did not leave the nest before the reapers came. Who acts: friends, reapers. 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 6

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The young Larks in their nest close by were much frightened, for they knew they would be in great danger if they did not leave the nest before the reapers came.

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**Who acts:** friends, reapers · **What happens:** frighten, know, be, not leave, come · **To what, where:** young Larks, great danger, nest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friends, reapers), 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:pg19994:130:6
# text = The young Larks in their nest close by were much frightened, for they knew they would be in great danger if they did not leave the nest before the reapers came.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Larks	lark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	reapers	reaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | the young Larks in friends's nest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | would | friends *= friend* |  |  | great danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | friends *= friend* | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the reapers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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