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title: An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him of… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. Who acts: Eagle. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 20

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An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** sail, pounce, carry off · **To what, where:** air, One, talons

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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 (Eagle), 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:pg21:6:20
# text = An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | gerund | a Eagle *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pounce** | past | a Eagle |  |  |  |  | upon One | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **carry off** | past | a Eagle *not said here* | One |  | One's talons |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in talon=Location |

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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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