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title: A Serpent had succeeded in surprising an Eagle and had wrapped himse… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Serpent had succeeded in surprising an Eagle and had wrapped himself around the Eagle's neck. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 1

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A Serpent had succeeded in surprising an Eagle and had wrapped himself around the Eagle's neck.

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**What happens:** succeed, surprise, wrap · **To what, where:** Serpent, Eagle, neck

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:96:1
# text = A Serpent had succeeded in surprising an Eagle and had wrapped himself around the Eagle's neck.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	surprising	surprise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past · perfect · passive |  | a Serpent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surprise** | gerund |  | a Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eagle=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wrap** | past · perfect |  | Eagle |  | the Eagle's neck |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme around neck=Destination |

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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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