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title: It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws o… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the Nemean Lion. Who acts: statue, act. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 4

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It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the Nemean Lion.

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**Who acts:** statue, act · **What happens:** be, tear · **To what, where:** representation, jaws

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (statue, act), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:786`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:101:4
# text = It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the Nemean Lion.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Nemean	Nemean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | statue | a representation |  |  |  | of Heracles in the act | tree rules |
| 2 | **tear** | gerund | the act *not said here* | the jaws of the Nemean Lion |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location jaw=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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