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title: A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of food. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of food. Who acts: FAMISHED WOLF. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 61

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A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of food.

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**Who acts:** FAMISHED WOLF · **What happens:** famish, prowl, search · **To what, where:** search, food

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FAMISHED 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:pg21:15:61
# text = A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of food.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	FAMISHED	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **famish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prowl** | past · progressive | a FAMISHED WOLF |  |  | search of food | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom search «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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