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title: Far into the sky he soared trying to shake off his enemy. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Far into the sky he soared trying to shake off his enemy. Who acts: Eagle. 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 3

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Far into the sky he soared trying to shake off his enemy.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** soar, try, shake off · **To what, where:** enemy

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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: who acts (Eagle), 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:pg19994:96:3
# text = Far into the sky he soared trying to shake off his enemy.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar** | past | Eagle |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shake off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Eagle *not said here* | Eagle's enemy |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent enemy=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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