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title: As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. Who acts: Shepherd, Villagers. 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 8

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As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd, Villagers · **What happens:** expect, hear, drop, run, work · **To what, where:** cry, work, great excitement

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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, Villagers), 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:pg19994:20:8
# text = As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past | Shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Villagers | the cry |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
| 3 | **drop** | past | the Villagers | Villagers's work |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | the Villagers *not said here* |  |  | great excitement |  | to the pasture *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pasture=Result |
| 5 | **work** |  | Villagers *= villager* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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