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title: An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so e… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick. Who acts: old Lion, him, he. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 1

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An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick.

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**Who acts:** old Lion, him, he · **What happens:** be, not be, get, pretend · **To what, where:** food

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Lion, him, he), 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:pg19994:100:1
# text = An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a old Lion |  |  |  |  | worn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | a old Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | him *= he* | food |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pretend** | past | a old Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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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