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title: But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him. Who acts: Stag, Panther. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 5

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But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him.

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**Who acts:** Stag, Panther · **What happens:** run, spread, catch, overtake · **To what, where:** spreading antlers, branches, Stag

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, Panther), 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:pg19994:53:5
# text = But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Stag | Stag's spreading antlers |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme antler=Trajectory |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | participle |  | Stag's spreading antlers *not said here* |  | the branches of the trees |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **overtake** | past | the Panther | Stag |  |  |  | soon *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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