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title: The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so ma… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so many wounds that both sank down unable to continue the battle. Who acts: two, they, both. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, sentence 2

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The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so many wounds that both sank down unable to continue the battle.

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**Who acts:** two, they, both · **What happens:** fight, receive, sink down, continue · **To what, where:** many wounds, battle

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, they, both), 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:pg19994:46:2
# text = The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so many wounds that both sank down unable to continue the battle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fight** | past | the two |  |  |  |  | for the prize; furiously *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **receive** | past · perfect | they | many wounds |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme |
| 3 | **sink down** | past | both | many wounds |  |  |  | unable *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **continue** | to-infinitive | both *not said here* | the battle |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |

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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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