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title: When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue. 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 115

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When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue.

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**Who acts:** Seagull · **What happens:** lacerate, be, lay down, exhaust · **To what, where:** each, long combat

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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:pg21:9:115
# text = When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lacerated	lacerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lacerate** | past · perfect | Seagull | each |  |  |  | fearfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Seagull *not said here* |  |  | the long combat |  | faint *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay down** | present | Seagull |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **exhaust** | participle | Seagull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fatigue; down *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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