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title: "Why," exclaimed the Wolf proudly, "see how big I am! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why," exclaimed the Wolf proudly, "see how big I am! 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 3

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"Why," exclaimed the Wolf proudly, "see how big I am!

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** exclaim, see, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg19994:29:3
# text = "Why," exclaimed the Wolf proudly, "see how big I am!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Wolf *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | big *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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