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title: But the Dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the Sheep g… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the Sheep grazed in perfect safety. Who acts: Dogs, Sheep. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 2

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But the Dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the Sheep grazed in perfect safety.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, Sheep · **What happens:** keep, graze · **To what, where:** Wolves, perfect safety

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, Sheep), 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:pg19994:145:2
# text = But the Dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the Sheep grazed in perfect safety.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the Dogs | Wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  | at a respectful distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at distance=Location |
| 2 | **graze** | past | the Sheep |  |  | perfect safety |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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