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title: A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a larg… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a large quantity of game. Who acts: Fox, Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 1

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A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a large quantity of game.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Lion · **What happens:** hunt, catch · **To what, where:** Lion, company, large quantity

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Lion), 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:pg19994:140:1
# text = A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a large quantity of game.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · progressive | a Fox | a Lion and a Ass *not said here* |  | company |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme in company=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | a Lion and a Ass | a large quantity of game |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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