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title: Just then the Ass kicked out with all his might, tumbling the Wolf a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then the Ass kicked out with all his might, tumbling the Wolf a dozen paces away. Who acts: Ass. 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 9

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Just then the Ass kicked out with all his might, tumbling the Wolf a dozen paces away.

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**Who acts:** Ass · **What happens:** kick out, tumble · **To what, where:** Wolf

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:482`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:62:9
# text = Just then the Ass kicked out with all his might, tumbling the Wolf a dozen paces away.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick out** | past | the Ass |  |  |  | then | with Ass's might | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with might=Instrument |
| 2 | **tumble** | gerund | the Ass *not said here* | the Wolf |  |  |  | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wolf=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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