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title: The Cock that had won the battle flew to the top of the hen-house, a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cock that had won the battle flew to the top of the hen-house, and, proudly flapping his wings, crowed with all his might to tell the world about his victory. Who acts: Cock. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 4

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The Cock that had won the battle flew to the top of the hen-house, and, proudly flapping his wings, crowed with all his might to tell the world about his victory.

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**Who acts:** Cock · **What happens:** win, fly, flap, crow, tell · **To what, where:** battle, wings, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cock), 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:pg19994:149:4
# text = The Cock that had won the battle flew to the top of the hen-house, and, proudly flapping his wings, crowed with all his might to tell the world about his victory.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	crowed	crow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
26	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	iobj	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · perfect | the Cock | the battle |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the Cock |  |  |  |  | to the top of the hen house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result |
| 3 | **flap** | gerund | the Cock *not said here* | farmyard's wings |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **crow** | participle | the Cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | might | the Cock *not said here* |  | the world |  |  | about farmyard's victory | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent world=Recipient about victory=Topic |

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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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