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title: The Eagle was constantly pouncing on the Hare, and the Owl dined dai… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Eagle was constantly pouncing on the Hare, and the Owl dined daily on Mice. Who acts: Eagle, Owl. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 5

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The Eagle was constantly pouncing on the Hare, and the Owl dined daily on Mice.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, Owl · **What happens:** pounce, dine

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, Owl), 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:pg19994:45:5
# text = The Eagle was constantly pouncing on the Hare, and the Owl dined daily on Mice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pouncing	pounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dined	dine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mice	Mice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pounce** | past · progressive | the Eagle |  |  |  |  | on the Hare; constantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hare=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dine** | past | the Owl |  |  |  |  | on Mice; daily *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on mice=Patient |

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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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