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title: "A _great big_ monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brothe… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "A _great big_ monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!" Who acts: _ great big monster. 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 4

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"A \_great big\_ monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"

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**Who acts:** \_ great big monster · **What happens:** say, step · **To what, where:** one · **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 (\_ great big monster), 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:pg19994:6:4
# text = "A _great big_ monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | a \_ great big monster | one of sisters |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 2 | **step** *in a quote* | past | a \_ great big monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on little brother; with one of monster's huge feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brother=Trajectory |

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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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