--- title: ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow be… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? Who acts: Wolf, own shadow, shadow, lion. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, own shadow, shadow, lion), 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:pg21:13:117 # text = ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? 1 ROAMING roam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 2 BY by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mountainside mountainside NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 sundown sundown NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 extended extended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 magnified magnify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 cop _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 extending extend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 39 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 acre acre NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 cop _ _ 46 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roam** | gerund | a Wolf *not said here* | | | sundown | | by the mountainside | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mountainside=Trajectory | | 2 | **see** | past | a Wolf | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **become** | present | lion's own shadow | | | | | extended *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **magnify** | participle | lion's own shadow *not said here* | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | shadow | | lion | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | of such immense size | tree rules | | 7 | **extend** *in a quote* | gerund | | a acre | | length | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent acre=Theme | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | shadow *not said here* | | | | | of the Lion; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **shadow** | | lion | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/118/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/)