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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 24

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An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, basking · **What happens:** hover, hear, demand, reward, give, take · **To what, where:** lamentation, basking, aloft, Eagle, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, basking), 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:pg21:4:24
# text = An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hovering	hover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reward	reward	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	aloft	aloft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hover** | gerund | a Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | a Eagle | Eagle's lamentation |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lamentation=Stimulus |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | a Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 4 | **reward** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | would | Eagle |  | basking |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | basking | Eagle's aloft |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aloft=Theme |
| 7 | **float** | infinitive | basking *not said here* | Eagle |  | the air |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 8 | **lament** |  | Eagle |  |  |  |  |  | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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