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# The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 31

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Immediately they all fell upon him, the Wolf in the lead, and soon had made an end to him, sacrificing him to the gods then and there, and without the formality of an altar.

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**Who acts:** grass · **What happens:** fall, make, sacrifice · **To what, where:** Wolf, end, Ass, gods

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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 (grass), 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:pg19994:125:31
# text = Immediately they all fell upon him, the Wolf in the lead, and soon had made an end to him, sacrificing him to the gods then and there, and without the formality of an altar.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	formality	formality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | grass | the Wolf in the lead |  |  |  | upon Ass; without the formality of a altar; immediately *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect | grass *not said here* | a end | Ass |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
| 3 | **sacrifice** | gerund | grass *not said here* | Ass | the gods |  | then |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to god=Recipient |

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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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