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title: There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf. Who acts: first. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 7

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There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf.

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** lay, kill, be · **To what, where:** hands, Wolf

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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:pg19994:97:7
# text = There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the first | hands |  | there |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the first *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | 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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