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title: A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds. Who acts: Giant Oak, brook. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 1

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A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds.

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**Who acts:** Giant Oak, brook · **What happens:** stand, grow · **To what, where:** brook, slender Reeds

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant Oak, brook), 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:pg19994:30:1
# text = A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a Giant Oak |  |  | a brook |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near brook=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a brook | some slender Reeds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reed=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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