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title: Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it wi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth. Who acts: Dogs. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 1

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Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth.

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**Who acts:** Dogs · **What happens:** find, begin, tear · **To what, where:** skin

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs 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 (Dogs), 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:pg19994:64:1
# text = Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | some Dogs | the skin of a Lion |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | some Dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | furiously *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tear** | to-infinitive | some Dogs *not said here* | skin |  |  |  | with Dogs's teeth | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tooth=Instrument |

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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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