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title: In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far. Who acts: piping. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 16

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In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far.

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**Who acts:** piping · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** evening air

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piping), 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:pg19994:3:16
# text = In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	piping	piping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the Wolf's piping |  |  | the evening air |  | far *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=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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