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title: Surprised but delighted at the prospect of so delicious a meal, the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Surprised but delighted at the prospect of so delicious a meal, the Wolf settled down under an open window, expecting every moment to have the child handed out to him. Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 5

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Surprised but delighted at the prospect of so delicious a meal, the Wolf settled down under an open window, expecting every moment to have the child handed out to him.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** settle down, expect, have, hand out, prospect · **To what, where:** open window, child, Wolf, delicious meal

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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 (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:pg19994:121:5
# text = Surprised but delighted at the prospect of so delicious a meal, the Wolf settled down under an open window, expecting every moment to have the child handed out to him.
1	Surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle down** | past | the Wolf |  |  | a open window |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* | the child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 4 | **hand out** | participle |  | the child *not said here* | Wolf |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **prospect** |  |  | a delicious meal |  |  |  |  | nom prospect «state 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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