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title: Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it unti… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free. Who acts: Mouse, great ropes, voice, Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 11

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Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.

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**Who acts:** Mouse, great ropes, voice, Lion · **What happens:** run, bound, gnaw, part, be · **To what, where:** one, Lion, voice

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, great ropes, voice, 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:pg19994:19:11
# text = Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | Mouse *not said here* |  | one of the great ropes |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to one=Result |
| 2 | **bound** | present | the great ropes | Lion |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme |
| 3 | **gnaw** | past | Mouse | voice |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **part** | past | voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  | free, soon *property* | 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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