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title: THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist ea… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase. Who acts: LION. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 5

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THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase.

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**Who acts:** LION · **What happens:** enter, assist · **To what, where:** agreement, each, chase

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LION), 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:pg21:10:5
# text = THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LION	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ass	Ass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	14	obj	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the LION and the Fox and the Ass |  |  | a agreement |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into agreement=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **assist** | to-infinitive | the LION and the Fox and the Ass *not said here* | each |  | the chase |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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