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title: One day the Wolf ran down a Stag and immediately called his comrades… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the Wolf ran down a Stag and immediately called his comrades to divide the spoil. Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 2

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One day the Wolf ran down a Stag and immediately called his comrades to divide the spoil.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** run down, call, divide · **To what, where:** Stag, comrades, spoil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. 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:pg19994:141:2
# text = One day the Wolf ran down a Stag and immediately called his comrades to divide the spoil.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | past | the Wolf | a Stag |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stag=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the Wolf *not said here* | Wolf's comrades |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **divide** | to-infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* | the spoil |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=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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