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title: Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Who acts: net. 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 8

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Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net.

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**Who acts:** net · **What happens:** stalk, catch, toil · **To what, where:** prey, forest, Lion, toils

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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 (net), 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:pg19994:19:8
# text = Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stalking	stalk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	toils	toil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stalk** | gerund |  | Lion's prey |  | the forest |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prey=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the Lion |  | the toils of a hunter's net |  | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **toil** |  | a hunter's net |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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