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description: What a great shouting and running about there would have been, had they caught me at just the very thing they are doing with so much enjoyment!" Who acts: great shouting, they. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 3

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What a great shouting and running about there would have been, had they caught me at just the very thing they are doing with so much enjoyment!"

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**Who acts:** great shouting, they · **What happens:** run about, have, catch, do · **To what, where:** me, thing

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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 (great shouting, they), 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:pg19994:104:3
# text = What a great shouting and running about there would have been, had they caught me at just the very thing they are doing with so much enjoyment!"
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run about** | gerund | what great shouting *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | what great shouting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | what great shouting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | past | they | me |  | the thing |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme at thing=Asset |
| 5 | **do** | present · progressive | they | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  | with much enjoyment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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