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title: The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed, as long as the plain was smooth and open kept himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion. Who acts: Stag, plain, exerting. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 96

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The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed, as long as the plain was smooth and open kept himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion.

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**Who acts:** Stag, plain, exerting · **What happens:** take, exert, be, keep · **To what, where:** utmost speed, Stag

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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 (Stag, plain, exerting), 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:pg21:14:96
# text = The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed, as long as the plain was smooth and open kept himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	exerting	exert	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Stag |  |  |  |  | to flight *result*; immediately *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to flight=Result |
| 2 | **exert** | gerund |  | Stag's utmost speed |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the plain |  |  |  |  | long, smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the plain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | past | exerting | Stag |  |  |  | at a safe distance from the Lion; easily *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at distance=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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