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title: A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. Who acts: Serpent. 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 69

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A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.

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**Who acts:** Serpent · **What happens:** glide, eat up · **To what, where:** hole, young unfledged nestlings

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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 (Serpent), 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:pg21:6:69
# text = A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	unfledged	unfledged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nestlings	nestling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | gerund | a Serpent *not said here* |  |  | nest's hole in the wall |  | past the nest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme past nest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **eat up** | past | a Serpent | the young unfledged nestlings |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nestling=Patient |

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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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