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title: Just then the Father came within sight of the home, and the Wolf was… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then the Father came within sight of the home, and the Wolf was barely able to save himself from the Dogs by a clever bit of running. Who acts: Father, Wolf, clever bit. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 12

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Just then the Father came within sight of the home, and the Wolf was barely able to save himself from the Dogs by a clever bit of running.

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**Who acts:** Father, Wolf, clever bit · **What happens:** come, be, save, run, sight · **To what, where:** Wolf, home

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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 (Father, Wolf, clever bit), 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:pg19994:121:12
# text = Just then the Father came within sight of the home, and the Wolf was barely able to save himself from the Dogs by a clever bit of running.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Father |  |  |  | then | within sight of the home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | able, barely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* | Wolf |  |  |  | from the Dogs; by a clever bit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from dog=Source |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | a clever bit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the home |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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