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title: But his plans were very much changed when he met a Lion, who, withou… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But his plans were very much changed when he met a Lion, who, without making any excuses, took the Lamb away from him. Who acts: plans, Wolf, Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 2

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But his plans were very much changed when he met a Lion, who, without making any excuses, took the Lamb away from him.

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**Who acts:** plans, Wolf, Lion · **What happens:** be, meet, make, take away, plan · **To what, where:** Lion, excuses, Lamb

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plans, Wolf, 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:pg19994:52:2
# text = But his plans were very much changed when he met a Lion, who, without making any excuses, took the Lamb away from him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	excuses	excuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Wolf's plans |  |  |  |  | change *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Wolf | a Lion |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | a Lion | any excuses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Product |
| 4 | **take away** | past | Wolf's plans *not said here* | the Lamb |  |  |  | from Wolf; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **plan** |  | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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