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title: He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of it… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the Shepherd laid his hands on it. Who acts: shepherd, porker. 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 2

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He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the Shepherd laid his hands on it.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, porker · **What happens:** capture, squeal, lay · **To what, where:** porker, hands, voice

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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, porker), 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:pg19994:24:2
# text = He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the Shepherd laid his hands on it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	porker	porker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	squealed	squeal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | shepherd | the porker |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porker=Theme |
| 2 | **squeal** | past | the porker |  |  |  |  | at the top of top's voice  the moment | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at top=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay** | past | the Shepherd | shepherd's hands |  | voice |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on it=Destination |

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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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