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title: One day a Stag came to a Sheep and asked her to lend him a measure o… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a Stag came to a Sheep and asked her to lend him a measure of wheat. Who acts: Stag. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 1

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One day a Stag came to a Sheep and asked her to lend him a measure of wheat.

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**Who acts:** Stag · **What happens:** come, ask, lend, measure · **To what, where:** Stag, measure, Sheep, wheat

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, 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 (Stag), 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:pg19994:124:1
# text = One day a Stag came to a Sheep and asked her to lend him a measure of wheat.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a Stag |  |  |  | day | to a Sheep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sheep=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a Stag *not said here* |  | Stag |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a Stag *not said here* | a measure of wheat | Sheep |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient measure=Theme |
| 4 | **measure** |  |  | wheat |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=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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