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title: A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her. Who acts: WOLF, Goat, chance. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 3

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A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her.

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**Who acts:** WOLF, Goat, chance · **What happens:** see, have, reach · **To what, where:** Goat feeding, summit, chance, her

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOLF, Goat, chance), 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:pg21:13:3
# text = A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a WOLF | a Goat feeding |  | the summit of a steep precipice |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeding=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Goat | no chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | no chance *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=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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