--- title: The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox.” Who acts: Lion, Woe, we. 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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, Woe, we), 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:pg21:9:118 # text = The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 cop _ _ 12 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux _ _ 29 fought fight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 belabored belabor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 32 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the Lion and the Bear | Kid | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **is** | gerund | the Lion and the Bear *not said here* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get up** | to-infinitive | the Lion and the Bear *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Woe | | | | | to us | tree rules | | 6 | **fight** *in a quote* | should · perfect | we | ourselves | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Co-Agent | | 7 | **belabor** *in a quote* | participle | we *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **serve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the turn of a Fox | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Attribute | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/119/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/)