--- title: He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the sound of… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion) crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away as fast as he could. Who acts: Ass, Cock, 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 (Ass, Cock, 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:pg21:7:110 # text = He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion) crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away as fast as he could. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 spring spring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 singular singular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 aversion aversion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 32 crowed crow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 33 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Ass | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **spring** | to-infinitive | Ass *not said here* | | | the Ass | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ass=Trajectory | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | yard | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **have** | present | the Cock | a singular aversion | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aversion=Patient | | 5 | **crow** | past | Ass *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **flee away** | past | the Lion | | | | | away, fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/111/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/)