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title: The Sheep in the pasture were much astonished and amused at the Pig'… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sheep in the pasture were much astonished and amused at the Pig's behavior, and followed the Shepherd and his charge to the pasture gate. Who acts: Sheep, 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 5

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The Sheep in the pasture were much astonished and amused at the Pig's behavior, and followed the Shepherd and his charge to the pasture gate.

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**Who acts:** Sheep, shepherd · **What happens:** be, follow, charge · **To what, where:** behavior, Shepherd, pasture gate

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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 (Sheep, 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:pg19994:24:5
# text = The Sheep in the pasture were much astonished and amused at the Pig's behavior, and followed the Shepherd and his charge to the pasture gate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	amused	amused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Sheep in the pasture |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Sheep in the pasture *not said here* |  |  | the Pig's behavior |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past |  | the Shepherd and shepherd's charge |  | the pasture gate |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme to gate=Trajectory |
| 4 | **charge** |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: 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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