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title: There none would dare harm them. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: There none would dare harm them. Who acts: none. 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 8

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There none would dare harm them.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** dare, harm · **To what, where:** 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 (none), 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:pg19994:99:8
# text = There none would dare harm them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | would | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **harm** | infinitive | none *not said here* | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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