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title: So, as soon as Mother Goat was out of sight, up he trotted to the do… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So, as soon as Mother Goat was out of sight, up he trotted to the door and knocked. Who acts: Mother Goat, Wolf. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 5

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So, as soon as Mother Goat was out of sight, up he trotted to the door and knocked.

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**Who acts:** Mother Goat, Wolf · **What happens:** be, trot, knock · **To what, where:** sight, door

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, 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 (Mother Goat, Wolf), 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:pg19994:137:5
# text = So, as soon as Mother Goat was out of sight, up he trotted to the door and knocked.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mother Goat |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trot** | past | Wolf |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
| 3 | **knock** | past | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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