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title: One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual an… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the Sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks. Who acts: quarreling violent, discord. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks, with its dependency
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 3

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One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the Sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks.

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**Who acts:** quarreling violent, discord · **What happens:** quarrel, be, mope, ask, bring · **To what, where:** surly manner, one, bundle, discord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarreling violent, discord), 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:pg19994:15:3
# text = One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the Sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sons	Son	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	moping	mope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	surly	surly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 | **quarrel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | than usual; violent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mope** | past · progressive | the quarreling violent |  |  | a surly manner |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | discord | one of Sons |  |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a bundle of sticks | discord |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bundle=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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