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title: He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket and rushing out suddenly at the animals who passed that way. Who acts: Ass, animals. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 2

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He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket and rushing out suddenly at the animals who passed that way.

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**Who acts:** Ass, animals · **What happens:** dress, amuse, hide, rush out, pass · **To what, where:** Ass, thicket, way

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass in the Lion's Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, animals), 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:pg19994:147:2
# text = He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket and rushing out suddenly at the animals who passed that way.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | Ass | Ass |  |  |  | in Lion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **amuse** | past | Ass *not said here* | Ass |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hide** | gerund | Ass *not said here* |  |  | a thicket |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location |
| 4 | **rush out** | gerund | Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the animals; suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at animal=Trajectory |
| 5 | **pass** | past | the animals | that way |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |

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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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