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title: A pack of Wolves lurked near the Sheep pasture. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A pack of Wolves lurked near the Sheep pasture. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 1

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A pack of Wolves lurked near the Sheep pasture.

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**What happens:** lurk · **To what, where:** Wolves, Sheep pasture

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:145:1
# text = A pack of Wolves lurked near the Sheep pasture.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	lurked	lurk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Sheep	sheep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lurk** | participle |  | Wolves *not said here* |  | the Sheep pasture |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pasture=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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