--- title: Now her weird "hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: Now her weird "hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and she begins her hunt for the bugs and beetles, frogs and mice she likes so well to eat. Who acts: weird hoo oo oo, oo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weird hoo oo oo, oo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg19994:28:3 # text = Now her weird "hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and she begins her hunt for the bugs and beetles, frogs and mice she likes so well to eat. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 hoo hoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 hoo hoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 hoo hoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 echoes echo VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bugs bug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **echo** | present | weird hoo oo oo | | | the quiet wood | | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | | 2 | **begin** | present | oo | light's hunt | | | | for the bugs and beetles and frogs and mice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Eventuality | | 3 | **like** | present | oo | mice *not said here* | | | | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | oo *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/4/) - ↑ back to [The Owl and the Grasshopper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/)