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title: The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the n… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. 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 6

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The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant.

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**Who acts:** Frogs · **What happens:** hide, think, be · **To what, where:** Frogs, reeds, new king, fearful giant

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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:pg19994:27:6
# text = The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the Frogs | Frogs *= frog* |  | the reeds and grasses |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient among reed=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the Frogs *not said here* | the new king |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Frogs *not said here* | some fearful giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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