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description: A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 127

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A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair.

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**What happens:** bite, lay, maim · **To what, where:** lair

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. 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.

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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:pg21:6:127
# text = A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	maimed	maim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | present |  |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **maim** | participle |  |  |  | Wolf's lair |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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