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title: "One," he said, counting on his claws, "that is myself the Lion. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "One," he said, counting on his claws, "that is myself the Lion. Who acts: show, that. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 4

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"One," he said, counting on his claws, "that is myself the Lion.

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**Who acts:** show, that · **What happens:** say, count, be · **To what, where:** show, claws · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (show, that), 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:pg19994:141:4
# text = "One," he said, counting on his claws, "that is myself the Lion.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | show |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | show *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | show |  | show's claws |  |  | 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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