--- title: One of them ran away, but the other stood his ground, and laid about… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: One of them ran away, but the other stood his ground, and laid about him so lustily with his sword that the Robber was fain to fly and leave him in peace. Who acts: One, other, Robber. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other, Robber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:474 # text = One of them ran away, but the other stood his ground, and laid about him so lustily with his sword that the Robber was fain to fly and leave him in peace. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 lustily lustily ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 fain fain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | past | One of pieces | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | the other | Notoriety's ground | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | | 3 | **lay** | past | the other *not said here* | | | | | about Notoriety; with Notoriety's sword; lustily *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination | | 4 | **is** | past | the Robber | | | | | fain *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the Robber *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | infinitive | the Robber *not said here* | Notoriety | | peace | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in peace=Location | 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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. 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