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title: A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Who acts: Shepherd. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 1

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A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** tend · **To what, where:** Sheep, dark forest

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd), 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:pg19994:20:1
# text = A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	tended	tend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | past | a Shepherd | Shepherd's master's Sheep |  | a dark forest |  | far *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

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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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