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title: The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, tor… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying Reeds. Who acts: great tree, roots, wind. 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 13

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The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying Reeds.

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**Who acts:** great tree, roots, wind · **What happens:** redouble, fall, tear up, lay, pity · **To what, where:** wind, fury, all, pitying 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 (great tree, roots, wind), 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:pg19994:30:13
# text = The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying Reeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
3	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	pitying	pity	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **redouble** | participle |  | the wind *not said here* |  | fury |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the great tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tear up** | participle · passive | the roots | all |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive | the wind |  |  | the pitying Reeds |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among reed=Destination |
| 5 | **pity** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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