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title: The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.” Who acts: remaining birds, sling, man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 62

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The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.”

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**Who acts:** remaining birds, sling, man · **What happens:** forsake, cry, be, scare, begin, show · **To what, where:** fields, each, time, us, earnest · **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 (remaining birds, sling, 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:pg21:4:62
# text = The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
6	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	10	obl	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Liliput	Liliput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	obl	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	obj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | past | the remaining birds | oxen's fields |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the remaining birds *not said here* |  | each |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sling | time |  |  |  | for us | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this man |  |  |  |  | content, long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **scare** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this man *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 6 | **begin** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | us | earnest |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **do** *in a quote* | can | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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