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title: "What are _you_ afraid of?" asked a young Frog. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "What are _you_ afraid of?" asked a young Frog. Who acts: young Frog. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 3

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"What are \_you\_ afraid of?" asked a young Frog.

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**Who acts:** young Frog · **What happens:** be, ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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:pg19994:83:3
# text = "What are _you_ afraid of?" asked a young Frog.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a young Frog |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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