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title: The Gnat thus prevailed over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a song… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gnat thus prevailed over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. Who acts: Gnat, triumph. 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 70

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The Gnat thus prevailed over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away.

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**Who acts:** Gnat, triumph · **What happens:** prevail, buzz, fly away, sing

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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 (Gnat, triumph), 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:pg21:11:70
# text = The Gnat thus prevailed over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gnat	Gnat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **prevail** | past | the Gnat |  |  |  |  | over the Lion; thus *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lion=Location |
| 2 | **buzz** | gerund | the Gnat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about a song of triumph | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about song=Location |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | the Gnat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | triumph |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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