---
title: The Shepherd searched a long time without finding any Wolves, but ju… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shepherd searched a long time without finding any Wolves, but just as he was passing near a large cave on the mountain side, a huge Lion stalked out, carrying a Sheep. Who acts: Shepherd, huge Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion, with its dependency t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Shepherd and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/) / 5

# The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Shepherd searched a long time without finding any Wolves, but just as he was passing near a large cave on the mountain side, a huge Lion stalked out, carrying a Sheep.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Shepherd, huge Lion · **What happens:** search, find, pass, stalk out, carry · **To what, where:** Wolves, large cave, Sheep

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, huge Lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg19994:126:5
# text = The Shepherd searched a long time without finding any Wolves, but just as he was passing near a large cave on the mountain side, a huge Lion stalked out, carrying a Sheep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stalked	stalk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | the Shepherd |  |  |  | time |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | the Shepherd *not said here* | any Wolves |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
| 3 | **pass** | past · progressive | Shepherd |  |  | a large cave |  | on the mountain side | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near cave=Location |
| 4 | **stalk out** | past | a huge Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | a huge Lion *not said here* | a Sheep |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/4/)
- next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/6/)
- ↑ back to [The Shepherd and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/)