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description: A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating a haunch of mutton for their dinner. Who acts: WOLF, hut. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 51

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A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating a haunch of mutton for their dinner.

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**Who acts:** WOLF, hut · **What happens:** pass by, see, eat · **To what, where:** Shepherds, hut, haunch

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOLF, hut), 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:pg21:8:51
# text = A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating a haunch of mutton for their dinner.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	haunch	haunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | gerund | a WOLF *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | a WOLF | some Shepherds |  | a hut |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | a hut *not said here* | a haunch of mutton |  |  |  | for Wolf's dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haunch=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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