The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 6

The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant.

Who acts: Frogs · What happens: hide, think, be · To what, where: Frogs, reeds, new king, fearful giant

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 hid	obj
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 reeds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reeds	det
7	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hid	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grasses	cc
9	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reeds	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinking	punct
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hid	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 king	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thinking	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	19 giant	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 giant	cop
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 giant	det
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 giant	amod
19	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thinking	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	past	the Frogs	Frogs = frog	the reeds and grasses	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient among reed=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	the Frogs not said here	the new king		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	the Frogs not said here	some fearful giant		tree rules

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.

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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