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title: With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Who acts: Stork. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 7

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With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life.

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**Who acts:** Stork · **What happens:** trap, fracture, be, beseech, spare · **To what, where:** Farmer, leg, net, life

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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 (Stork), 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:pg21:4:7
# text = With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fractured	fracture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	earnestly	earnestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | participle · passive |  | Farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fracture** | past · perfect | a Stork | Stork's leg |  | the net |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **beseech** | gerund |  | the Farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spare** | to-infinitive |  | Stork's life |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |

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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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