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title: AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey. Who acts: EAGLE, Hare. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 71

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AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey.

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**Who acts:** EAGLE, Hare · **What happens:** sit, watch, seek, make, move · **To what, where:** lofty rock, movements, prey, Hare

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EAGLE, Hare), 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:pg21:7:71
# text = AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey.
1	AN	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	EAGLE	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | a EAGLE |  |  | a lofty rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | a EAGLE *not said here* | the movements of a Hare |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | past | Hare | the movements of a Hare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hare *not said here* | Hare's prey |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prey=Product |
| 5 | **move** |  |  | a Hare |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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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