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title: So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return. Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 12

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So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** go away, pull, promise, return · **To what, where:** belt

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg19994:56:12
# text = So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund | Wolf *not said here* |  |  | Wolf's belt |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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