--- title: The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/) [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 Boy and the Wolf # The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 20 sentences and 290 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/1/) — A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/2/) — Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/3/) — All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/4/) — One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/5/) — His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/6/) — So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf! - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/7/) — Wolf!" - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/8/) — As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/9/) — But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/10/) — A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf! - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/11/) — Wolf!" - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/12/) — Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/13/) — Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/14/) — In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/15/) — Wolf!" - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/16/) — But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. " - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/17/) — He cannot fool us again," they said. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/18/) — The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/19/) — \_Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/20/20/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Lion and the Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/19/) - next →: [The Gnat and the Bull](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)