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title: The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead. Who acts: Bear. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 3

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The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead.

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**Who acts:** Bear · **What happens:** fight, throw, lay, be · **To what, where:** savage beast, Bear, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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:pg19994:118:3
# text = The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  | the savage beast |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past |  | Bear |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Bear |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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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