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title: A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much painful tugging, in getting away. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 1

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A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much painful tugging, in getting away.

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**What happens:** catch, succeed, get away · **To what, where:** Fox, trap, last

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. 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:pg19994:111:1
# text = A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much painful tugging, in getting away.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tugging	tugging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | a Fox |  | a trap |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **succeed** | participle · passive |  | a Fox |  | last | after much painful tugging |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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