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title: In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! Who acts: Boy, village. 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 14

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In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf!

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**Who acts:** Boy, village · **What happens:** run, shout · **To what, where:** terror, Wolf

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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 (Boy, village), 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:pg19994:20:14
# text = In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the Boy |  |  | terror |  | toward the village | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the village *not said here* | Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |

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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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