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title: Next year the Eagle built her nest far up on a mountain crag; but th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Next year the Eagle built her nest far up on a mountain crag; but the Beetle found it and again destroyed the eggs. Who acts: Eagle, 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 6

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Next year the Eagle built her nest far up on a mountain crag; but the Beetle found it and again destroyed the eggs.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, Beetle · **What happens:** build, find, destroy · **To what, where:** nest, mountain crag, eggs

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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, 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:pg19994:99:6
# text = Next year the Eagle built her nest far up on a mountain crag; but the Beetle found it and again destroyed the eggs.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	crag	crag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the Eagle | Eagle's nest |  | a mountain crag | year |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on crag=Source |
| 2 | **find** | past | the Beetle | nest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **destroy** | past | the Beetle *not said here* | the eggs |  |  | again |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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