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title: Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey. Who acts: great Bear. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, sentence 1

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Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey.

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**Who acts:** great Bear · **What happens:** rush, seize, leap · **To what, where:** stray kid, Lion, direction

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, 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 (great Bear), 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:pg19994:46:1
# text = Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | a great Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive | a great Bear *not said here* | a stray kid |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme |
| 3 | **leap** | participle |  | a Lion *not said here* |  | another direction upon the same prey |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from direction=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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