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title: A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roo… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roof of a sheep shelter to keep him out of harm's way. Who acts: herdsman. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 1

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A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roof of a sheep shelter to keep him out of harm's way.

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**Who acts:** herdsman · **What happens:** leave, thatch, keep · **To what, where:** frisky young Kid, thatched roof, Kid, way

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman), 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:pg19994:12:1
# text = A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roof of a sheep shelter to keep him out of harm's way.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Kid	Kid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sheep	sheep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | the herdsman | a frisky young Kid |  | the thatched roof of a sheep shelter |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on roof=Location |
| 2 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the herdsman *not said here* | Kid |  | harm's way |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out way=Location |

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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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