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title: Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with on… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. Who acts: Monkeys. 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 99

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Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts.

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**Who acts:** Monkeys · **What happens:** pull off, tear, fight · **To what, where:** masks, robes

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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 (Monkeys), 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:pg21:9:99
# text = Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts.
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	masks	mask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull off** | gerund | Monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | Monkeys's masks |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tear** | gerund | Monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | Monkeys's robes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location robe=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | with another; for the nuts | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with another=Co-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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