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title: As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the Bull had to submit to the insult. Who acts: Lion, Bull. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 3

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As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the Bull had to submit to the insult.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Bull · **What happens:** prowl, have, submit · **To what, where:** entrance

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Bull), 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:pg19994:98:3
# text = As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the Bull had to submit to the insult.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prowl** | past · progressive | the Lion |  |  | the entrance to the cave | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside entrance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Bull |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **submit** | to-infinitive | the Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the insult | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to insult=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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