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title: But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck. Who acts: big hulking Camel, Camel. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 5

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But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck.

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**Who acts:** big hulking Camel, Camel · **What happens:** hulk, make, kick out, twist · **To what, where:** Camel, knotty legs, long clumsy neck

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big hulking Camel, Camel), 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:pg19994:42:5
# text = But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	hulking	hulk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	knotty	knotty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hulk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the big hulking Camel | Camel |  |  |  | ridiculous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
| 3 | **kick out** | past | Camel | Camel's knotty legs |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 4 | **twist** | past | Camel *not said here* | Camel's long clumsy neck |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=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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