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description: Not long after they had agreed upon this plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and her brood. Who acts: branches. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fable
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 78

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Not long after they had agreed upon this plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and her brood.

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**Who acts:** branches · **What happens:** agree, be, swoop down, seize, feast · **To what, where:** want, young ones, Fox

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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 (branches), 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:pg21:14:78
# text = Not long after they had agreed upon this plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and her brood.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	feasted	feast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
42	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | upon this plan; long *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | want |  | of provision; for Fox's young ones | tree rules |
| 3 | **swoop down** | participle |  | Fox's young ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon one of the little cubs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feast** | past |  | Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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