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title: So the Ass lifted up his foot and the Wolf began to search very clos… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Ass lifted up his foot and the Wolf began to search very closely and carefully for the thorn. Who acts: Ass, Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 8

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So the Ass lifted up his foot and the Wolf began to search very closely and carefully for the thorn.

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**Who acts:** Ass, Wolf · **What happens:** lift up, begin, search · **To what, where:** foot

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, 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:pg19994:62:8
# text = So the Ass lifted up his foot and the Wolf began to search very closely and carefully for the thorn.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | the Ass | Ass's foot |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **search** | to-infinitive | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the thorn; closely *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for thorn=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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