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title: A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his fa… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his family feasting on a roasted lamb. Who acts: Wolf, family. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 1

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A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his family feasting on a roasted lamb.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, family · **What happens:** lurk, see, feast, roast · **To what, where:** hut, Shepherd

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, family), 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:pg19994:104:1
# text = A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his family feasting on a roasted lamb.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	lurking	lurk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	feasting	feast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lurk** | gerund | a Wolf *not said here* |  |  | the Shepherd's hut |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hut=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | a Wolf | the Shepherd and Wolf's family |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feast** | gerund | Wolf's family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a roasted lamb | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on lamb=Patient |
| 4 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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