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title: Now a Boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now a Boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow tusk. Who acts: Boar. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion, sentence 5

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Now a Boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow tusk.

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**Who acts:** Boar · **What happens:** spy, rush, gore · **To what, where:** Lion

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boar), 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:pg19994:116:5
# text = Now a Boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow tusk.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Boar	Boar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gored	gore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tusk	tusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spy** | past | a Boar | Lion |  |  | now |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund | a Boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Lion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gore** | past | a Boar *not said here* | Lion |  |  |  | with Lion's yellow tusk | 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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