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title: A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodl… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream. Who acts: stray Lamb. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 1

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A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream.

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**Who acts:** stray Lamb · **What happens:** stand, drink · **To what, where:** bank

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stray Lamb), 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:pg19994:47:1
# text = A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a stray Lamb |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund | a stray Lamb *not said here* |  |  | the bank of a woodland stream | morning |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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