--- title: She is only waiting her chance to fly down and carry off one of your… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: She is only waiting her chance to fly down and carry off one of your little pigs when you take them out, to feed her brood with." She succeeded in frightening the Sow as much as the Eagle. Who acts: Satyr, you. 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She succeeded in frightening the Sow as much as the Eagle. **Who acts:** Satyr, you · **What happens:** wait, fly down, carry off, take out, feed, succeed · **To what, where:** chance, one, pigs, brood, Sow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satyr, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:585 # text = She is only waiting her chance to fly down and carry off one of your little pigs when you take them out, to feed her brood with." She succeeded in frightening the Sow as much as the Eagle. # 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 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brood brood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 31 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 succeeded succeed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 in in SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 frightening frighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Sow sow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 much much ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present · progressive | Satyr | Satyr's chance | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fly down** | to-infinitive | Satyr *not said here* | Satyr's chance *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry off** | infinitive | Satyr *not said here* | one of your little pigs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **take out** | present | you | pigs *= pig* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **feed** | to-infinitive | Satyr *not said here* | Satyr's brood | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Recipient | | 6 | **succeed** *in a quote* | past | Satyr | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **frighten** *in a quote* | gerund | Satyr *not said here* | the Sow | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sow=Experiencer | | 8 | **chance** | | Satyr | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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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