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title: It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would ha… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would have turned up his nose at such meager fare had he not been more hungry than usual. Who acts: It, Master Wolf, Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 2

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It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would have turned up his nose at such meager fare had he not been more hungry than usual.

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**Who acts:** It, Master Wolf, Wolf · **What happens:** happen, be, turn up, have, not be · **To what, where:** lean Dog, nose, such meager fare

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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 (It, Master Wolf, 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:pg19994:56:2
# text = It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would have turned up his nose at such meager fare had he not been more hungry than usual.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bony	bony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	meager	meager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a lean Dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn up** | would · perfect | Master Wolf | Wolf's nose |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  | such meager fare |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | participle | Wolf |  |  |  |  | than usual; hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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