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title: Then, though the Tiger, the Bear, the Wolf, and all the savage beast… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, though the Tiger, the Bear, the Wolf, and all the savage beasts recited the most wicked deeds, all were excused and made to appear very saint-like and innocent. Who acts: Tiger. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 23

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Then, though the Tiger, the Bear, the Wolf, and all the savage beasts recited the most wicked deeds, all were excused and made to appear very saint-like and innocent.

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**Who acts:** Tiger · **What happens:** recite, excuse, make, appear · **To what, where:** wicked deeds, all

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger), 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:pg19994:125:23
# text = Then, though the Tiger, the Bear, the Wolf, and all the savage beasts recited the most wicked deeds, all were excused and made to appear very saint-like and innocent.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	recited	recite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	excused	excuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	saint	saint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | past | the Tiger | the wicked deeds |  |  | then |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme |
| 2 | **excuse** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | saint *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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