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title: So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his f… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance. Who acts: Wolf. 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 5

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So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** speak, compliment · **To what, where:** Wolf, fine appearance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg19994:107:5
# text = So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	humbly	humbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	complimenting	compliment	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | humbly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **compliment** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* | Wolf |  | Wolf's fine appearance |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:** «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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