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title: To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. Who acts: ruler. 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 9

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To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland.

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**Who acts:** ruler · **What happens:** teach, send, be · **To what, where:** lesson, Frogs, Crane, king

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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 (ruler), 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:pg19994:27:9
# text = To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Frogland	Frogland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the ruler of the gods *not said here* | a lesson | the Frogs |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient lesson=Topic |
| 2 | **send** | past | the ruler of the gods | a Crane |  |  | now |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | king |  |  |  | of Frogland | 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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