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title: He now began to glare at the others very savagely. " — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He now began to glare at the others very savagely. " 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 9

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He now began to glare at the others very savagely. "

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** begin, glare · **To what, where:** others

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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:pg19994:141:9
# text = He now began to glare at the others very savagely. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	glare	glare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	savagely	savagely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Wolf |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **glare** | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* |  |  | the others |  | savagely *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at other=Location |

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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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