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title: But the Eagle pounced upon her prey, the sweep of her great wings tu… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Eagle pounced upon her prey, the sweep of her great wings tumbling the Beetle a dozen feet away. Who acts: Eagle, sweep. 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 2

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But the Eagle pounced upon her prey, the sweep of her great wings tumbling the Beetle a dozen feet away.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, sweep · **What happens:** pounce, tumble · **To what, where:** prey, 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 (Eagle, sweep), 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:pg19994:99:2
# text = But the Eagle pounced upon her prey, the sweep of her great wings tumbling the Beetle a dozen feet away.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pounce** | past | the Eagle |  |  | Eagle's prey |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon prey=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tumble** | gerund | the sweep of Eagle's great wings *not said here* | the Beetle |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beetle=Theme |

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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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