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title: Where now his strength and his former graceful beauty? — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Where now his strength and his former graceful beauty? A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion, sentence 4

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Where now his strength and his former graceful beauty?

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:116:4
# text = Where now his strength and his former graceful beauty?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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