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title: The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. Who acts: vanquished Cock. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 19

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The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might.

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**Who acts:** vanquished Cock · **What happens:** vanquish, skulk away, hide, fly up, flap, crow · **To what, where:** One, quiet corner, wings

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vanquished Cock), 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:pg21:6:19
# text = The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	skulked	skulk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	crowed	crow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	exultingly	exultingly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanquish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **skulk away** | past | the vanquished Cock |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past | the vanquished Cock *not said here* | One |  | a quiet corner |  | the conqueror *obl* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location |
| 4 | **fly up** | gerund | the vanquished Cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a high wall *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wall=Result |
| 5 | **flap** | past |  | One's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 6 | **crow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | exultingly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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