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title: In pity for the noble Eagle he rushed up and soon had loosened the c… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In pity for the noble Eagle he rushed up and soon had loosened the coiling Serpent and freed the Eagle. 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 6

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In pity for the noble Eagle he rushed up and soon had loosened the coiling Serpent and freed the Eagle.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** rush up, loosen, coil, free · **To what, where:** pity, coiling Serpent, Eagle

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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:pg19994:96:6
# text = In pity for the noble Eagle he rushed up and soon had loosened the coiling Serpent and freed the Eagle.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	coiling	coil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush up** | past | Eagle |  |  | pity for the noble Eagle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pity=Trajectory |
| 2 | **loosen** | past · perfect | Eagle *not said here* | the coiling Serpent |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient |
| 3 | **coil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **free** | past | Eagle *not said here* | the Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer eagle=Source |

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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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