--- title: He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. Who acts: Lion, one condition, daughter. 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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 (Lion, one condition, daughter), 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:pg21:4:113 # text = He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 expressed express VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 willingness willingness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 suitor suitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 extract extract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 fearfully fearfully ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **express** | past | Lion | Lion's willingness | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent willingness=Theme | | 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* | the Lion | | one condition | | as the suitor of Lion's daughter | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lion=Theme as suitor=Attribute | | 3 | **allow** | should | Lion | one condition *not said here* | Master | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **extract** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one condition *not said here* | Lion's teeth | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 5 | **cut off** | participle | | Lion's claws | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector claw=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | past | Lion's daughter | | | | | of both; afraid, fearfully *property* | tree rules | 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/114/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/)