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title: AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame. Who acts: AN ASS feeding, 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 82

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AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame.

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**Who acts:** AN ASS feeding, Wolf · **What happens:** see, approach, seize, pretend, be · **To what, where:** Wolf, feeding

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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 (AN ASS feeding, 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:pg21:12:82
# text = AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame.
1	AN	an	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | AN ASS feeding in a meadow | a Wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | gerund | a Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive | a Wolf *not said here* | feeding |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **pretend** | participle | AN ASS feeding in a meadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | AN ASS feeding in a meadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lame *property* | 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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