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title: A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. Who acts: BALD KNIGHT. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 23

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A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt.

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**Who acts:** BALD KNIGHT · **What happens:** wear, go out, hunt · **To what, where:** wig

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BALD KNIGHT), 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:pg21:10:23
# text = A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	BALD	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	KNIGHT	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | a BALD KNIGHT | a wig |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | past | a BALD KNIGHT *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | a BALD KNIGHT *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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