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title: A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a Wolf. Who acts: KID, Wolf. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 82

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A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a Wolf.

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**Who acts:** KID, Wolf · **What happens:** return, pursue · **To what, where:** pasture, KID

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KID, 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:pg21:11:82
# text = A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a Wolf.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	KID	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **return** | gerund | a KID *not said here* |  |  | the pasture |  | without protection | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pasture=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pursue** | past · passive | a Wolf | a KID |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:** «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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