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title: AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his win… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 39

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AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** capture, clip, put, weigh down · **To what, where:** AN EAGLE, wings, man, Eagle, treatment

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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 (man), 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:pg21:16:39
# text = AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
1	AN	an	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	EAGLE	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	clipped	clip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past · passive | a man | AN EAGLE |  |  |  | once *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **clip** | past | a man | man's wings |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | a man *not said here* |  | man |  |  | into man's poultry yard; with the other birds | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 4 | **weigh down** | past · passive |  | the Eagle |  | which treatment |  | with grief | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at treatment=Value |

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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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