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title: They fought until one of them was beaten and crawled off to a corner… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They fought until one of them was beaten and crawled off to a corner to hide. 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 3

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They fought until one of them was beaten and crawled off to a corner to hide.

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**Who acts:** Cocks · **What happens:** fight, beat, crawl off, hide · **To what, where:** one, corner

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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:pg19994:149:3
# text = They fought until one of them was beaten and crawled off to a corner to hide.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Cocks *= cock* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat** | past · passive |  | one of Cocks |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **crawl off** | participle |  |  |  | a corner |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to corner=Destination |
| 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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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