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title: One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog wh… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home. Who acts: Wolf, fine fat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 3

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One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, fine fat · **What happens:** happen, fall in, wander · **To what, where:** little, home

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, fine fat), 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:pg19994:107:3
# text = One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this Wolf |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall in** | to-infinitive | this Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a fine fat | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** | past · perfect | a fine fat | a little |  | home |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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