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title: A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the charge. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the charge. Who acts: WOLF, Fox. 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 30

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A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the charge.

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**Who acts:** WOLF, Fox · **What happens:** accuse, deny · **To what, where:** Fox, charge

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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, Fox), 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:pg21:13:30
# text = A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the charge.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	accused	accuse	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	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	denied	deny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accuse** | past | a WOLF | a Fox of theft |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
| 2 | **deny** | past | the Fox | the charge |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent charge=Eventuality |

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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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