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title: A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly con… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly conflict. Who acts: SERPENT. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 31

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A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly conflict.

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**Who acts:** SERPENT · **What happens:** struggle · **To what, where:** deadly conflict

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SERPENT), 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:pg21:11:31
# text = A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly conflict.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SERPENT	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | past · progressive | a SERPENT and a Eagle |  |  | deadly conflict |  | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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