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title: Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her. Who acts: 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 3

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Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** rouse, lay, kill · **To what, where:** nap, huge paw, tiny creature, Mouse

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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 (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:pg19994:19:3
# text = Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.
1	Roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | participle | the Lion *not said here* |  |  | Lion's nap |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | past | the Lion | Lion's huge paw |  | the tiny creature |  | angrily *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on creature=Destination |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | the Lion *not said here* | Mouse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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