--- title: AN EAGLE made her nest at the top of a lofty oak; a Cat, having foun… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: AN EAGLE made her nest at the top of a lofty oak; a Cat, having found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk; and a Wild Sow, with her young, took shelter in a hollow at its foot. Who acts: AN EAGLE, Cat, Wild Sow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AN EAGLE, Cat, Wild Sow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:11:3 # text = AN EAGLE made her nest at the top of a lofty oak; a Cat, having found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk; and a Wild Sow, with her young, took shelter in a hollow at its foot. 1 AN an ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 EAGLE eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux _ _ 18 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 convenient convenient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Sow Sow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 young young NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 40 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 41 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obl _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | AN EAGLE | Cat's nest | | the top of a lofty oak | | a Cat *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | | 2 | **find** | gerund · perfect | a Cat *not said here* | a convenient hole | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | | 3 | **move** | participle | | a convenient hole *not said here* | | the middle of the trunk | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into middle=Trajectory | | 4 | **take** | past | a Wild Sow | shelter | | a hollow | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in hollow=Location | 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. **Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/4/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/)