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title: The Ass made such a frightful din in the cave, kicking and braying w… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ass made such a frightful din in the cave, kicking and braying with all his might, that the Goats came running out in a panic of fear, only to fall victim to the Lion. Who acts: Ass, Goats. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 5

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The Ass made such a frightful din in the cave, kicking and braying with all his might, that the Goats came running out in a panic of fear, only to fall victim to the Lion.

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**Who acts:** Ass, Goats · **What happens:** make, kick, bray, come, run out, fall · **To what, where:** frightful din, cave, panic, victim, fear

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, Goats), 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:pg19994:58:5
# text = The Ass made such a frightful din in the cave, kicking and braying with all his might, that the Goats came running out in a panic of fear, only to fall victim to the Lion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	braying	bray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Goats	Goat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
35	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | the Ass | such frightful din |  | the cave |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset din=Product |
| 2 | **kick** | gerund | the Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bray** | gerund | the Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | the Goats |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run out** | gerund | the Goats *not said here* |  |  | a panic of fear |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in panic=Trajectory |
| 6 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the Goats *not said here* | victim |  |  |  | to the Lion *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to lion=Result |
| 7 | **panic** |  |  | fear |  |  |  |  | nom panic «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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