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title: Early one morning a hungry Wolf was prowling around a cottage at the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Early one morning a hungry Wolf was prowling around a cottage at the edge of a village, when he heard a child crying in the house. Who acts: hungry Wolf, Wolf, child. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 1

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Early one morning a hungry Wolf was prowling around a cottage at the edge of a village, when he heard a child crying in the house.

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**Who acts:** hungry Wolf, Wolf, child · **What happens:** prowl, hear, cry · **To what, where:** cottage, child, house

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry Wolf, Wolf, child), 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:pg19994:121:1
# text = Early one morning a hungry Wolf was prowling around a cottage at the edge of a village, when he heard a child crying in the house.
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prowl** | past · progressive | a hungry Wolf |  |  | a cottage | morning | at the edge of a village | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around cottage=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Wolf | a child |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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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