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title: He was feeling very vigorous indeed, and pranced around loftily, hol… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He was feeling very vigorous indeed, and pranced around loftily, holding his head high. Who acts: Mule. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 2

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He was feeling very vigorous indeed, and pranced around loftily, holding his head high.

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**Who acts:** Mule · **What happens:** feel, prance, hold

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mule), 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:pg19994:74:2
# text = He was feeling very vigorous indeed, and pranced around loftily, holding his head high.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pranced	prance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	around	around	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	loftily	loftily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · progressive | Mule |  |  |  |  | vigorous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **prance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | loftily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | Mule *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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