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title: AN EAGLE stayed his flight and entreated a Lion to make an alliance… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN EAGLE stayed his flight and entreated a Lion to make an alliance with him to their mutual advantage. Who acts: AN EAGLE. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 48

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AN EAGLE stayed his flight and entreated a Lion to make an alliance with him to their mutual advantage.

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**Who acts:** AN EAGLE · **What happens:** stay, entreat, make · **To what, where:** flight, Lion, alliance

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. 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:pg21:15:48
# text = AN EAGLE stayed his flight and entreated a Lion to make an alliance with him to their mutual advantage.
1	AN	an	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	EAGLE	EAGLE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stay** | past | AN EAGLE | Eagle's flight |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flight=Location |
| 2 | **entreat** | past | AN EAGLE *not said here* |  | a Lion |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | AN EAGLE *not said here* | a alliance |  |  |  | with Eagle; to Lion's mutual advantage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alliance=Product |

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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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