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title: A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. Who acts: SEAGULL. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 110

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A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die.

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**Who acts:** SEAGULL · **What happens:** have, bolt down, burst, lay down, die · **To what, where:** large fish, deep gullet bag, shore

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SEAGULL), 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:pg21:9:110
# text = A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SEAGULL	seagull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	gullet	gullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | a SEAGULL *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bolt down** | participle | a SEAGULL *not said here* | a large fish |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | past | a SEAGULL | Kite's deep gullet bag |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme |
| 4 | **lay down** | infinitive | a SEAGULL *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination |
| 5 | **die** | to-infinitive | a SEAGULL *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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