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title: Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn. 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 4

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Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn.

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**Who acts:** Goat · **What happens:** pick up, throw, break · **To what, where:** stone, horn

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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:pg19994:105:4
# text = Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | Goat | a stone |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Goat *not said here* | stone |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | gerund | Goat *not said here* | the Goat's horn |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=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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