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title: At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out o… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, "Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play! Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 4

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At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, "Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play!

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** put, say, stop, play · **To what, where:** head, water, dear children, cruel play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg19994:32:4
# text = At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, "Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | pond's head |  | the water |  | at last one of the Frogs  the oldest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at one=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | dear children |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your cruel play |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality play=Eventuality |
| 4 | **play** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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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