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description: Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Who acts: Having, Cat, children, you. A sen
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 7

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Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.”

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**Who acts:** Having, Cat, children, you, Eagle · **What happens:** have, frighten, creep down, say, be, go out · **To what, where:** Eagle, senses, cave, great danger, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Having, Cat, children, you), 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:pg21:11:7
# text = Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.”
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Sow	Sow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
44	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	pounce	pounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **frighten** | past | Having | the Eagle |  | Cat's senses |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eagle=Experiencer |
| 3 | **creep down** | past | Cat |  |  | the cave of the Sow |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your children |  |  | great danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go out** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with your litter; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with litter=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Eagle |  |  |  |  | prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **pounce** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon one of your little pigs | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon one=Trajectory |

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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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