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title: A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, n… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life. Who acts: HEN. 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 69

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A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life.

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**Who acts:** HEN · **What happens:** find, keep, nourish · **To what, where:** eggs, life

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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 (HEN), 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:pg21:15:69
# text = A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	HEN	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	viper	viper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | a HEN *not said here* | the eggs of a viper |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | a HEN *not said here* | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  | carefully, warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **nourish** | participle | a HEN *not said here* | eggs *= egg* |  | life |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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