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title: "Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howlin… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 4

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"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

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**What happens:** growl, send, howl · **To what, where:** North Wind, cold, blast

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:143:4
# text = "Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	growled	growl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | past |  | the North Wind |  |  |  | well *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **howl** | gerund |  | blast |  |  |  | against the Traveler | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blast=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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