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title: A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and uttered cries l… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and uttered cries like a child. Who acts: HARE. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 32

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A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and uttered cries like a child.

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**Who acts:** HARE · **What happens:** pounce, sob, utter · **To what, where:** HARE, eagle, cries

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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 (HARE), 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:pg21:14:32
# text = A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and uttered cries like a child.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	HARE	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pounce** | participle |  | a HARE *not said here* |  |  |  | by a eagle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by eagle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sob** | participle |  | a eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | a HARE | cries |  |  |  | like a child | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |

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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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