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description: On his reaching the river Nile he saw a Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree. Who acts: Minerva. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 44

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On his reaching the river Nile he saw a Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree.

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**Who acts:** Minerva · **What happens:** reach, see, be, climb up · **To what, where:** Lion, reaching river Nile, tree

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minerva), 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:pg21:15:44
# text = On his reaching the river Nile he saw a Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Minerva | a Lion |  | Minerva's reaching river Nile |  | on Nile's bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | Minerva *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid, fearfully *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb up** | participle | Minerva *not said here* | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |

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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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