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title: Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf. Who acts: that. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 3

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Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** awful state

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg19994:16:3
# text = Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.
1	Naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | a awful state |  |  |  | of affairs for a greedy Wolf; naturally *property* | tree rules |

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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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