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title: AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper and earnestly besought her to stop chirping. Who acts: noise, Grasshopper. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 108

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AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper and earnestly besought her to stop chirping.

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**Who acts:** noise, Grasshopper · **What happens:** accustom, feed, sleep, disturb, beseech, stop · **To what, where:** AN OWL, youth

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, Grasshopper), 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:pg21:12:108
# text = AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper and earnestly besought her to stop chirping.
1	AN	an	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	OWL	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	chirping	chirp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | participle |  | AN OWL *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **disturb** | past · passive | the noise of a Grasshopper | AN OWL |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **beseech** | past | the noise of a Grasshopper *not said here* | youth |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the noise of a Grasshopper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **chirp** | gerund | the noise of a Grasshopper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **noise** |  | a Grasshopper |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** «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.

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