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title: And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves. Who acts: man, feathers. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, wi
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 18

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And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves.

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**Who acts:** man, feathers · **What happens:** see, predict, be, contrive, fly · **To what, where:** archer approach, foot, darts

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, feathers), 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:pg21:14:18
# text = And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	archer	archer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	predicted	predict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	contrive	contrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
24	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | a archer approach |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus |
| 2 | **predict** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | this man and foot *not said here* |  |  | foot |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **contrive** | would | this man and foot | darts |  |  |  | with feathers; armed *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Result |
| 5 | **fly** | would | feathers |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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