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title: It was the right password, but when the Kid peeped through a crack i… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the right password, but when the Kid peeped through a crack in the door and saw the shadowy figure outside, he did not feel at all easy. Who acts: race, Kid, Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 7

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It was the right password, but when the Kid peeped through a crack in the door and saw the shadowy figure outside, he did not feel at all easy.

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**Who acts:** race, Kid, Wolf · **What happens:** be, peep, see, not feel · **To what, where:** right password, shadowy figure, all

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (race, Kid, 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:pg19994:137:7
# text = It was the right password, but when the Kid peeped through a crack in the door and saw the shadowy figure outside, he did not feel at all easy.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Kid	Kid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
31	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | race | the right password |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep** | past | the Kid |  |  |  |  | in the door; through a crack | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through crack=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | the Kid *not said here* | the shadowy figure |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | Wolf |  |  | all |  | easy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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