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title: But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt. Who acts: Frogs, huge log. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its depende
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 139

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But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt.

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**Who acts:** Frogs, huge log · **What happens:** realize, be, swim, dismiss, climb up, begin · **To what, where:** top, fears, log

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frogs, huge log), 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:pg21:4:139
# text = But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	realized	realize	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	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	squatting	squat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **realize** | past | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the huge log |  |  |  |  | motionless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** | past | Frogs *= frog* |  |  | the top of the water | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
| 4 | **dismiss** | past | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **climb up** | participle · passive |  | Frogs's fears |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **squat** | gerund | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  | log |  | in contempt | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 8 | **fear** |  | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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