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title: Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. Who acts: Jupiter, Frogs, huge log. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 5

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Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash.

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, Frogs, huge log · **What happens:** see, be, keep, make, think, have · **To what, where:** simple creatures, Frogs, king, huge log, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jupiter, Frogs, huge log), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:203`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:27:5
# text = Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash.
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
4	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Frogs *= frog* | what simple creatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | Frogs *= frog* | a king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 7 | **throw down** | past | Jupiter | a huge log |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme |
| 8 | **fall** | past | a huge log |  |  |  |  | into the water *result*; with a great splash | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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