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title: When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renew… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first. Who acts: beasts, Vultures, one. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dep
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 83

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When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first.

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**Who acts:** beasts, Vultures, one · **What happens:** stop, catch, see, wait, feast, fall · **To what, where:** breath, Vultures, fight

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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 (beasts, Vultures, one), 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:pg21:7:83
# text = When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	renewal	renewal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	Vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **stop** | past | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | beasts *= beast* *not said here* | beasts's breath |  |  |  | for a fiercer renewal of the fight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent breath=Theme for renewal=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **see** | past | beasts *= beast* | some Vultures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vulture=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | some Vultures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the distance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location |
| 5 | **feast** | to-infinitive | some Vultures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the one | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on one=Patient |
| 6 | **fall** | should | the one |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **renew** |  |  | the fight |  |  |  |  | nom renewal «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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