--- title: While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him and killed him. Who acts: lion. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/119/) [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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/) / 119 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 119 While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him and killed him. **Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** indulge, fall, kill · **To what, where:** proud thoughts, lion This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. 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. **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:pg21:13:119 # text = While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him and killed him. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 indulging indulge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 7 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **indulge** | past · progressive | lion | | | this proud thoughts | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | past | a Lion | | | | | upon shadow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | | 3 | **kill** | past | a Lion *not said here* | lion | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/120/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/)