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title: ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 94

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ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** resolve, disguise, secure · **To what, where:** appearance, food

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg21:4:94
# text = ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily.
1	ONCE	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
2	UPON	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	TIME	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	disguise	disguise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | a Wolf |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disguise** | to-infinitive | a Wolf *not said here* | Wolf's appearance |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme appearance=Destination |
| 3 | **secure** | to-infinitive | a Wolf *not said here* | food |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition food=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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