---
title: To find the thief I offered to sacrifice a fat Calf. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: To find the thief I offered to sacrifice a fat Calf. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/8/)

<!-- 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/) / 8

# The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 8

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To find the thief I offered to sacrifice a fat Calf.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** find, offer, sacrifice · **To what, where:** thief, fat Calf

<!-- .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 (I), 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:pg19994:126:8
# text = To find the thief I offered to sacrifice a fat Calf.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the thief |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |
| 2 | **offer** | past | I | the thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sacrifice** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a fat Calf |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calf=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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/7/)
- next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/9/)
- ↑ back to [The Shepherd and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/126/)