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title: The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head. Who acts: Eagle, Peasant, wall. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 128

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The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, Peasant, wall · **What happens:** not prove, see, sit, not be, fly, snatch · **To what, where:** Peasant, wall, bundle, head

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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 (Eagle, Peasant, wall), 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:pg21:9:128
# text = The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Peasant	Peasant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
32	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **prove** | past · do-support | the Eagle |  |  |  |  | ungrateful *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the Eagle *not said here* | the Peasant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | the Peasant *not said here* |  |  | a wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=Location |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | a wall |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | past | Eagle |  |  |  |  | toward bird | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **snatch** | past | Eagle *not said here* | a bundle |  | Eagle's head |  | with Eagle's talons | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme from head=Source |

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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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