---
title: When the poor Fox Without a Tail turned around, there arose such a s… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When the poor Fox Without a Tail turned around, there arose such a storm of jeers and hooting, that he saw how useless it was to try any longer to persuade the Foxes to part with their tails. Who acts: poor Fox, Fox, it, jeers. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail,
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/111/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Fox Without a Tail](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/111/) / 13

# The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When the poor Fox Without a Tail turned around, there arose such a storm of jeers and hooting, that he saw how useless it was to try any longer to persuade the Foxes to part with their tails.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** poor Fox, Fox, it, jeers · **What happens:** turn around, arise, hoot, see, be, persuade · **To what, where:** storm, Foxes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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: who acts (poor Fox, Fox, it, jeers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg19994:111:13
# text = When the poor Fox Without a Tail turned around, there arose such a storm of jeers and hooting, that he saw how useless it was to try any longer to persuade the Foxes to part with their tails.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	jeers	jeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hooting	hoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
30	any	any	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn around** | participle | the poor Fox without a Tail |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | past |  | such storm of jeers |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme |
| 3 | **hoot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | long, try *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the Foxes |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient |
| 7 | **storm** |  | jeers |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/111/12/)
- next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/111/14/)
- ↑ back to [The Fox Without a Tail](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/111/)