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title: But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very ki… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 7

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But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.

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**What happens:** fox, stay, thank · **To what, where:** Lion

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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: 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:pg19994:100:7
# text = But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Master	master	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	Fox	fox	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fox** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | outside, wisely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund |  |  | the Lion |  |  | for the invitation; kindly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lion=Theme for invitation=Attribute |

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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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