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title: In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed. Who acts: Frogs. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 12

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In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.

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**Who acts:** Frogs · **What happens:** beg, take away, destroy · **To what, where:** Jupiter, mournful croaks, cruel tyrant, Frogs

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frogs), 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:pg19994:27:12
# text = In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	croaks	croak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	away	away	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Frogs *= frog* |  | Jupiter | mournful croaks |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jupiter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* | the cruel tyrant |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyrant=Theme |
| 3 | **destroy** | should · passive |  | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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