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title: "Do not worry about us," replied the Reeds. " — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not worry about us," replied the Reeds. " Who acts: you, 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.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 6

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"Do not worry about us," replied the Reeds. "

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**Who acts:** you, Reeds · **What happens:** not worry, reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Reeds), 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:pg19994:30:6
# text = "Do not worry about us," replied the Reeds. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	worry	worry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **worry** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about us | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Reeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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