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title: One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Shee… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured. Who acts: shepherd. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 1

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One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured.

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**Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** discover, pasture · **To what, where:** fat Pig, meadow, Sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig. 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:pg19994:24:1
# text = One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	pastured	pasture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | a shepherd | a fat Pig |  | the meadow | day |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Topic |
| 2 | **pasture** | past · passive |  | shepherd's Sheep |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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