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title: The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, “I am rightly served, f… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 87

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The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, “I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?”

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**Who acts:** Wolf, father · **What happens:** maul, say, serve, attempt, teach, trade · **To what, where:** Wolf, art, trade, butcher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, father), 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:pg21:12:87
# text = The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, “I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mauled	maul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maul** | gerund · passive |  | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | fearfully, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the Wolf *= wolf* |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **attempt** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Wolf *= wolf* | the art of healing |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Eventuality |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | my father | the trade of a butcher | the Wolf *= wolf* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trade=Topic |
| 6 | **trade** *in a quote* |  |  | a butcher |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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