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title: A Fox and a Leopard, resting lazily after a generous dinner, amused… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fox and a Leopard, resting lazily after a generous dinner, amused themselves by disputing about their good looks. Who acts: Fox, generous dinner. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 1

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A Fox and a Leopard, resting lazily after a generous dinner, amused themselves by disputing about their good looks.

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**Who acts:** Fox, generous dinner · **What happens:** rest, amuse, dispute · **To what, where:** Fox

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, generous dinner), 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:pg19994:68:1
# text = A Fox and a Leopard, resting lazily after a generous dinner, amused themselves by disputing about their good looks.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
8	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	amused	amuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	disputing	dispute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund | a Fox and a Leopard *not said here* |  |  |  | after a generous dinner | lazily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **amuse** | participle | a generous dinner *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dispute** | gerund | a generous dinner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Fox's good looks | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about look=Theme |

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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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