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title: A Sheep passed by near his hiding place, and the Wolf called to him. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Sheep passed by near his hiding place, and the Wolf called to him. Who acts: Sheep. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 3

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A Sheep passed by near his hiding place, and the Wolf called to him.

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**Who acts:** Sheep · **What happens:** pass, call · **To what, where:** Sheep, Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep), 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:pg19994:48:3
# text = A Sheep passed by near his hiding place, and the Wolf called to him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | a Sheep *not said here* |  |  |  | by Sheep's hiding place | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by place=Location |
| 2 | **call** | past | a Sheep |  | Wolf |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |

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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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