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title: They persuaded the Dogs to go away, and that very evening the Wolves… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They persuaded the Dogs to go away, and that very evening the Wolves had the grandest feast of their lives. Who acts: Sheep, Wolves. 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 8

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They persuaded the Dogs to go away, and that very evening the Wolves had the grandest feast of their lives.

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**Who acts:** Sheep, Wolves · **What happens:** persuade, go away, have · **To what, where:** Dogs, grandest feast

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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: who acts (Sheep, Wolves), 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:pg19994:145:8
# text = They persuaded the Dogs to go away, and that very evening the Wolves had the grandest feast of their lives.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	grandest	grand	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | Sheep | the Dogs |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | Sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Wolves | the grandest feast of Sheep's lives |  |  | evening |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |

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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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