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title: So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy. Who acts: Fox, great show. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 3

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So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy.

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**Who acts:** Fox, great show · **What happens:** make, look, fear · **To what, where:** great show, hidden enemy

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, great show), 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:pg19994:43:3
# text = So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	advmod	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Fox | a great show |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Product |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | a great show *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fear** |  |  | some hidden enemy |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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