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title: A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover. Who acts: Goat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Goat, sentence 1

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A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover.

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**Who acts:** Goat · **What happens:** stray away, tempt · **To what, where:** flock

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat), 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:pg19994:105:1
# text = A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strayed	stray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	clover	clover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stray away** | past | a Goat |  |  | the flock |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from flock=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tempt** | participle |  | the flock *not said here* |  |  |  | by a patch of clover | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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