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title: At last, worn out with rage and covered with wounds that his own tee… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, worn out with rage and covered with wounds that his own teeth and claws had made, the Lion gave up the fight. Who acts: Lion. 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 7

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At last, worn out with rage and covered with wounds that his own teeth and claws had made, the Lion gave up the fight.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** wear out, cover, make, give up · **To what, where:** last, own teeth, fight

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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), 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:pg19994:39:7
# text = At last, worn out with rage and covered with wounds that his own teeth and claws had made, the Lion gave up the fight.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | participle |  |  |  | last |  | with rage | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at last=Source |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with wounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | rage's own teeth and claws |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product |
| 4 | **give up** | past | the Lion | the fight |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Source |

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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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