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title: The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. Who acts: Frog, acquaintance. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 118

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The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed.

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**Who acts:** Frog, acquaintance · **What happens:** enjoy, swim, croak, do · **To what, where:** water, good deed

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog, acquaintance), 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:pg21:6:118
# text = The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	amazingly	amazingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past | the Frog | the water |  |  |  | amazingly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 2 | **swim** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **croak** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | acquaintance | a good deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |

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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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