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title: But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was _much, much_… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was _much, much_ bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst. Who acts: little Frogs, monster, old Frog, bigger. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox, with its depende
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 10

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But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was \_much, much\_ bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

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**Who acts:** little Frogs, monster, old Frog, bigger · **What happens:** declare, be, keep, puff out, burst · **To what, where:** bigger

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Frogs, monster, old Frog, bigger), 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:pg19994:6:10
# text = But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was _much, much_ bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
16	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	puffing	puff	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
28	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the little Frogs |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the monster |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the old Frog |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **puff out** | gerund | the old Frog *not said here* | bigger *= big* |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Source |
| 5 | **burst** | past | bigger *= big* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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