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title: At last one day they flew up to fight it out, beak and claw. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one day they flew up to fight it out, beak and claw. Who acts: Cocks. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 2

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At last one day they flew up to fight it out, beak and claw.

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**Who acts:** Cocks · **What happens:** fly up, fight out · **To what, where:** sight

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cocks), 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:pg19994:149:2
# text = At last one day they flew up to fight it out, beak and claw.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | past | Cocks *= cock* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight out** | to-infinitive | Cocks *= cock* *not said here* | sight |  |  |  | beak and claw *obl* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |

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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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