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title: But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them. Who acts: Villagers, Boy. 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 9

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But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.

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**Who acts:** Villagers, Boy · **What happens:** get, find, double up, play · **To what, where:** trick

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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 (Villagers, Boy), 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:pg19994:20:9
# text = But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doubled	double	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Villagers *= villager* |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | past | Villagers *= villager* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **double up** | past | the Boy |  |  | the trick |  | with laughter | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with laughter=Instrument |
| 4 | **play** | past · perfect | Boy | the trick *not said here* |  |  |  | on Villagers *= villager* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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