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title: That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat. Who acts: hungry Wolf. 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 2

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That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat.

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**Who acts:** hungry Wolf · **What happens:** come, hunt, eat

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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 (hungry 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:pg19994:47:2
# text = That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a hungry Wolf |  |  |  | morning | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | a hungry Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for something=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a hungry Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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