---
title: The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yieldi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding Reeds bowed low. Who acts: Oak, yielding Reeds. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Oak and the Reeds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/) / 12

# The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding Reeds bowed low.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Oak, yielding Reeds · **What happens:** stand, fight, bow

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Oak, yielding Reeds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg19994:30:12
# text = The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding Reeds bowed low.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	yielding	yielding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Oak |  |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | past | the Oak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the storm | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bow** | past | the yielding Reeds |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/11/)
- next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/13/)
- ↑ back to [The Oak and the Reeds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/)