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title: A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt to injure one of them. Who acts: WOLF. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 44

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A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt to injure one of them.

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**Who acts:** WOLF · **What happens:** follow, not attempt, not injure · **To what, where:** flock, one

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg21:12:44
# text = A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt to injure one of them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | a WOLF | a flock of sheep |  |  | time |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **attempt** | past · do-support | a WOLF *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **injure** | to-infinitive | a WOLF *not said here* | one of 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:** «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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