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title: The Bull, on approaching the Lion’s den, saw the huge spits and gian… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bull, on approaching the Lion’s den, saw the huge spits and giant caldrons, and no sign whatever of the sheep, and, without saying a word, quietly took his departure. Who acts: Bull. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 99

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The Bull, on approaching the Lion’s den, saw the huge spits and giant caldrons, and no sign whatever of the sheep, and, without saying a word, quietly took his departure.

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**Who acts:** Bull · **What happens:** approach, see, say, take, depart · **To what, where:** den, huge spits, word, departure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg21:12:99
# text = The Bull, on approaching the Lion’s den, saw the huge spits and giant caldrons, and no sign whatever of the sheep, and, without saying a word, quietly took his departure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	appos	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spits	spit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	caldrons	caldron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | gerund |  | the Lion's den |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Bull | the huge spits and giant caldrons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | past |  | Bull's departure |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme |
| 5 | **depart** |  | Bull |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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