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title: So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram. Who acts: head. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 3

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So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram.

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** come down, rustle · **To what, where:** back, feathers

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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:pg19994:9:3
# text = So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Ram	Ram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | head |  |  | the back of a large Ram |  | with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air; down, swiftly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location |
| 2 | **rustle** |  |  | feathers |  |  |  |  | nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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