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title: But the third time, the Fox went boldly up to the Lion and, without… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the third time, the Fox went boldly up to the Lion and, without turning a hair, said, "Hello, there, old top." Who acts: Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Lion, sentence 4

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But the third time, the Fox went boldly up to the Lion and, without turning a hair, said, "Hello, there, old top."

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** go, turn, say · **To what, where:** hair, old top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox 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 (Fox), 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:pg19994:57:4
# text = But the third time, the Fox went boldly up to the Lion and, without turning a hair, said, "Hello, there, old top."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Fox |  |  |  | time | up the Lion; boldly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up lion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund |  | a hair |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fox *not said here* | old top |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=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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