--- title: The Walnut-Tree The Wasp and the Snake The Wasps, the Partridges, an… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Walnut-Tree The Wasp and the Snake The Wasps, the Partridges, and the Farmer The Weasel and the Mice The Widow and Her Little Maidens The Widow and the Sheep The Wild Ass and the Lion The Wild Boar and the Fox The Wolf and the Crane The Wolf and the Fox The Wolf and the Goat The Wolf and the Hor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/) / 77 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 77 The Walnut-Tree The Wasp and the Snake The Wasps, the Partridges, and the Farmer The Weasel and the Mice The Widow and Her Little Maidens The Widow and the Sheep The Wild Ass and the Lion The Wild Boar and the Fox The Wolf and the Crane The Wolf and the Fox The Wolf and the Goat The Wolf and the Horse The Wolf and the Housedog The Wolf and the Lamb The Wolf and the Lion The Wolf and the Lion The Wolf and the Sheep The Wolf and the Shepherd The Wolf and the Shepherds The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The Wolves and the Sheep The Wolves and the Sheepdogs The Woman and her Hen **What happens:** clothe · **To what, where:** Wolves This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:17:77 # text = The Walnut-Tree The Wasp and the Snake The Wasps, the Partridges, and the Farmer The Weasel and the Mice The Widow and Her Little Maidens The Widow and the Sheep The Wild Ass and the Lion The Wild Boar and the Fox The Wolf and the Crane The Wolf and the Fox The Wolf and the Goat The Wolf and the Horse The Wolf and the Housedog The Wolf and the Lamb The Wolf and the Lion The Wolf and the Lion The Wolf and the Sheep The Wolf and the Shepherd The Wolf and the Shepherds The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The Wolves and the Sheep The Wolves and the Sheepdogs 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the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/76/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/)