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title: Two, that's the Wolf, three, is the Jackal, and the Fox makes four." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Two, that's the Wolf, three, is the Jackal, and the Fox makes four." Who acts: that, Two Wolf, Fox. 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 5

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Two, that's the Wolf, three, is the Jackal, and the Fox makes four."

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**Who acts:** that, Two Wolf, Fox · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** Two Wolf, Jackal, four

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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 (that, Two Wolf, Fox), 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:pg19994:141:5
# text = Two, that's the Wolf, three, is the Jackal, and the Fox makes four."
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | the Two Wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Two Wolf | the Jackal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the Fox | four |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Product |

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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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