---
title: The Shepherd often catches and carries off one of us. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shepherd often catches and carries off one of us. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/24/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Sheep and the Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/24/) / 7

# The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Shepherd often catches and carries off one of us.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** catch, carry off · **To what, where:** one

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg19994:24:7
# text = The Shepherd often catches and carries off one of us.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | the Shepherd |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry off** | present | the Shepherd *not said here* | one of us |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/24/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/24/8/)
- ↑ back to [The Sheep and the Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/24/)