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title: Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separ… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other. Who acts: pilot, Cocks. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 80

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Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other.

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**Who acts:** pilot, Cocks · **What happens:** see, fight, not separate, beat · **To what, where:** Cocks, one

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilot, Cocks), 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:pg21:13:80
# text = Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	separating	separate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **see** | past | pilot | the Cocks |  |  |  | afterwards, long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund | the Cocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **separate** | gerund | the Cocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **beat** | past · perfect · passive |  | one |  |  |  | well *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient other=Result |

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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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