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title: The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and s… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him. Who acts: old Frog. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 3

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The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.

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**Who acts:** old Frog · **What happens:** miss, ask, become · **To what, where:** little one, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old Frog), 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:pg19994:6:3
# text = The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | the old Frog | the little one |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the old Frog *not said here* |  | Frog's brothers and sisters |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of Frog | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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