--- title: As soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice of the Woodcutter: whereon he called to him and reproached him, saying, “You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you leave me without a word of thanks.” Who acts: Fox, Woodcutter, You. 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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 (Fox, Woodcutter, You), 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:pg21:8:83 # text = As soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice of the Woodcutter: whereon he called to him and reproached him, saying, “You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you leave me without a word of thanks.” 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 departed depart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Woodcutter woodcutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 whereon whereon ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 reproached reproach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 ungrateful ungrateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 yet yet ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 without without ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Fox | | | | | away, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **depart** | past | the Fox | | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | gerund | the Fox *not said here* | any notice of the Woodcutter | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | | 4 | **call** | past | Woodcutter | | huntsman | | | whereon *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **reproach** | past | Woodcutter *not said here* | Woodcutter | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Woodcutter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fellow** *in a quote* | | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **owe** *in a quote* | present | you | your life | Woodcutter | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to i=Goal | | 9 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | you | Woodcutter | | | yet | without a word of thanks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 10 | **notice** | | | the Woodcutter | | | | | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 11 | **word** *in a quote* | | | thanks | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/84/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/)