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title: He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Do… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. Who acts: Dog. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 93

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He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him.

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**Who acts:** Dog · **What happens:** let, go, attack, get · **To what, where:** other Dog, larger piece

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), 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:pg21:3:93
# text = He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Dog |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Dog's own | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of own=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **attack** | past | Dog *not said here* | the other Dog |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Dog *not said here* | Dog's larger piece |  |  |  | from Dog | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from he=Source |

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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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