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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 21

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The Panther, however, when he had recruited his feeble strength, freed himself with a sudden bound from the pit, and hastened to his den with rapid steps.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd, Panther · **What happens:** recruit, free, hasten · **To what, where:** feeble strength, Shepherd, den

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, Panther), 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:pg21:16:21
# text = The Panther, however, when he had recruited his feeble strength, freed himself with a sudden bound from the pit, and hastened to his den with rapid steps.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	recruited	recruit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recruit** | past · perfect | Shepherd | Shepherd's feeble strength |  |  |  | however *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 2 | **free** | past | the Panther | Shepherd |  |  |  | with a sudden bound from the pit | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle | the Panther *not said here* |  |  | Shepherd's den |  | with rapid steps | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to den=Destination |

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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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