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title: But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest. Who acts: Eagle. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 5

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But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** circle, hear, boast, swoop down, carry off · **To what, where:** boasting chanticleer, Eagle, nest

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg19994:149:5
# text = But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	swooping	swoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **circle** | gerund | a Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | overhead *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | a Eagle | the boasting chanticleer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chanticleer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **swoop down** | gerund | a Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry off** | past | a Eagle *not said here* | Eagle |  | Eagle's nest |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to nest=Destination |

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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:** «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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