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title: "Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was buzzing around his head. Who acts: Lion, Gnat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 1

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"Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was buzzing around his head.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Gnat · **What happens:** say, buzz · **To what, where:** head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Gnat), 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:pg19994:39:1
# text = "Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was buzzing around his head.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Gnat	gnat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a Lion |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buzz** | past · progressive | a Gnat |  |  | Gnat's head |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around head=Location |

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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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