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title: A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might ca… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. Who acts: WILD ASS, Children. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 58

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A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease.

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**Who acts:** WILD ASS, Children · **What happens:** enter, capture · **To what, where:** alliance, beasts

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WILD ASS, Children), 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:pg21:7:58
# text = A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	WILD	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ASS	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **enter** | past | a WILD ASS and a Lion |  |  | a alliance |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into alliance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **capture** | might | Children *= child* | the beasts of the forest with greater ease |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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