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title: The Lion looked back, but as the Wolf was too far away to be taught… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lion looked back, but as the Wolf was too far away to be taught a lesson without too much inconvenience, he said: Who acts: Lion, Wolf. 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 5

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The Lion looked back, but as the Wolf was too far away to be taught a lesson without too much inconvenience, he said:

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**Who acts:** Lion, Wolf · **What happens:** look back, be, teach, say · **To what, where:** lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lion, Wolf), 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:pg19994:52:5
# text = The Lion looked back, but as the Wolf was too far away to be taught a lesson without too much inconvenience, he said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	inconvenience	inconvenience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · passive | the Lion *not said here* | a lesson |  |  |  | without much inconvenience | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: lesson=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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