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title: Fancy _me_ running away from a puny Lion! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Fancy _me_ running away from a puny Lion! A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 4

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Fancy \_me\_ running away from a puny Lion!

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**What happens:** run away

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:29:4
# text = Fancy _me_ running away from a puny Lion!
1	Fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	puny	puny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from a puny Lion; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lion=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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