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title: A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring the b… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring the bird, set him free. Who acts: PEASANT, Eagle. 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 127

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A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring the bird, set him free.

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**Who acts:** PEASANT, Eagle · **What happens:** find, capture, admire, set · **To what, where:** Eagle, trap, bird

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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 (PEASANT, Eagle), 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:pg21:9:127
# text = A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring the bird, set him free.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PEASANT	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | a PEASANT | a Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent eagle=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **capture** | participle | a Eagle *not said here* |  |  | a trap |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **admire** | gerund | a PEASANT *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | a PEASANT *not said here* | Eagle |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |

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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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