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title: She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the ear… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger. Who acts: Doe, land, hunter. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 91

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She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.

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**Who acts:** Doe, land, hunter · **What happens:** turn, get, entertain, approach · **To what, where:** sound eye, land, earliest tidings, anticipation

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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 (Doe, land, hunter), 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:pg21:7:91
# text = She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
28	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	anticipation	anticipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Doe | Doe's sound eye |  | the land |  | Doe's injured eye towards the sea *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | might | the land | the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 3 | **entertain** | past | Doe | no anticipation of danger |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anticipation=Experiencer |
| 4 | **approach** |  | hunter or hound |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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