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title: A Wolf left his lair one evening in fine spirits and an excellent ap… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Wolf left his lair one evening in fine spirits and an excellent appetite. Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 1

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A Wolf left his lair one evening in fine spirits and an excellent appetite.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** lair, fine spirits

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow. 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:pg19994:29:1
# text = A Wolf left his lair one evening in fine spirits and an excellent appetite.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | a Wolf | Wolf's lair |  | fine spirits and a excellent appetite | evening |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lair=Theme in spirit=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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