--- title: The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had s… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?” Who acts: wounde --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/) / 87 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 87 The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?” **Who acts:** wounded Lion, it, Fox, I · **What happens:** rush away, see, happen, tell, be, not back off · **To what, where:** great fear, Fox, first attack, me, vain, fearful messenger · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wounded Lion, it, Fox, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:10:87 # text = The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wounded wounded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 back back VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 “ " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 counsel counsel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 for for SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 if if SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 50 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 fearful fearful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 58 advmod _ _ 56 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 57 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 abide abide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 acl:relcl _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 64 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 58 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ? ? PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rush away** | past | the wounded Lion | | | great fear | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Trajectory | | 2 | **see** | past · perfect · passive | | a Fox | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **happen** | present | it | | | | | all *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | Fox | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | of good courage | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **back off** | to-infinitive | | | | the first attack | | | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Fox | the first attack *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent attack=Topic | | 8 | **counsel** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Fox | | me | vain | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 9 | **send** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Fox | a fearful messenger | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | | 10 | **abide** *in a quote* | shall | I | the attack of the man | | | | Fox *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 11 | **attack** *in a quote* | | | the man | | | | | nom attack «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/88/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/)