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title: It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds.” Who acts: oak, Fox, strong winds. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 87

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It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds.”

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**Who acts:** oak, Fox, strong winds · **What happens:** fall, address, wonder, be, not crush · **To what, where:** Reeds, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak, Fox, strong winds), 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:pg21:8:87
# text = It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | oak |  |  |  |  | among some Reeds | tree rules |
| 2 | **address** | past | oak | some Reeds |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | the Fox *= fox* | you |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **crush** *in a quote* | present · passive | this strong winds |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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:** «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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