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title: But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest. Who acts: toothless clawless Lion, Lion. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its depend
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 115

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But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.

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**Who acts:** toothless clawless Lion, Lion · **What happens:** return, repeat, drive away, request · **To what, where:** request, Lion, forest

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toothless clawless Lion, Lion), 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:pg21:4:115
# text = But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	toothless	toothless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	clawless	clawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **return** | past | the toothless clawless Lion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | the toothless clawless Lion *not said here* | Lion's request |  |  |  | the Woodman *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drive away** | past | the toothless clawless Lion *not said here* | Lion |  | the forest |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into forest=Trajectory |
| 4 | **request** |  | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: 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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