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title: A Beetle once begged the Eagle to spare a Hare which had run to her… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Beetle once begged the Eagle to spare a Hare which had run to her for protection. Who acts: Beetle. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 1

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A Beetle once begged the Eagle to spare a Hare which had run to her for protection.

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**Who acts:** Beetle · **What happens:** beg, spare, run · **To what, where:** Eagle, Hare, Beetle

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beetle), 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:pg19994:99:1
# text = A Beetle once begged the Eagle to spare a Hare which had run to her for protection.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | a Beetle |  | the Eagle |  |  | once *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient |
| 2 | **spare** | to-infinitive | a Beetle *not said here* | a Hare |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent hare=Asset |
| 3 | **run** | past · perfect |  |  | Beetle |  |  | for protection | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |

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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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