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title: They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a mom… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture. Who acts: Dogs, Wolf. 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 18

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They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, Wolf · **What happens:** recognize, sing, race · **To what, where:** song

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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 (Dogs, 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:pg19994:3:18
# text = They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognized	recognize	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	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	racing	race	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | Dogs *= dog* | the song |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the Wolf | the song *not said here* |  |  | before a feast |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **race** | past · progressive | Dogs *= dog* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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