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title: AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live near each other. Who acts: AN EAGLE. 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 76

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AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live near each other.

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**Who acts:** AN EAGLE · **What happens:** form, decide, live · **To what, where:** intimate friendship, each

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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 (AN EAGLE), 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:pg21:14:76
# text = AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live near each other.
1	AN	an	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	EAGLE	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obl	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | AN EAGLE and a Fox | a intimate friendship |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | past | AN EAGLE and a Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | AN EAGLE and a Fox *not said here* |  |  | each |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near each=Location |

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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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