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title: Just then an immense shadow blotted him out entirely, and the next i… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then an immense shadow blotted him out entirely, and the next instant a Lion struck him down with a single blow. Who acts: immense shadow, next instant. 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 6

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Just then an immense shadow blotted him out entirely, and the next instant a Lion struck him down with a single blow.

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**Who acts:** immense shadow, next instant · **What happens:** blot out, strike down · **To what, where:** Wolf

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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: who acts (immense shadow, next instant), 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:pg19994:29:6
# text = Just then an immense shadow blotted him out entirely, and the next instant a Lion struck him down with a single blow.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	blotted	blot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blot out** | past | a immense shadow |  | Wolf |  | then | entirely *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
| 2 | **strike down** | past | the next instant | Wolf |  |  |  | with a single blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with blow=Instrument |

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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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