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title: A white paw, of course, is a feature few Wolves can show, and so Mas… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A white paw, of course, is a feature few Wolves can show, and so Master Wolf had to go away as hungry as he had come. Who acts: white paw, Master Wolf, 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 every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 9

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A white paw, of course, is a feature few Wolves can show, and so Master Wolf had to go away as hungry as he had come.

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**Who acts:** white paw, Master Wolf, Wolf · **What happens:** be, have, go away, come

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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 (white paw, Master Wolf, 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:pg19994:137:9
# text = A white paw, of course, is a feature few Wolves can show, and so Master Wolf had to go away as hungry as he had come.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can · present | a white paw and course |  |  |  |  | show *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Master Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go away** | to-infinitive | Master Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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