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title: Just then they heard a shout of "Stop, thief!" and looking around, s… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then they heard a shout of "Stop, thief!" and looking around, saw a mob of people armed with clubs coming down the road. Who acts: Travelers, shout, clubs. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 10

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Just then they heard a shout of "Stop, thief!" and looking around, saw a mob of people armed with clubs coming down the road.

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**Who acts:** Travelers, shout, clubs · **What happens:** hear, stop, look around, see, arm, come down · **To what, where:** shout, thief, mob, people, road · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travelers, shout, clubs), 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:pg19994:25:10
# text = Just then they heard a shout of "Stop, thief!" and looking around, saw a mob of people armed with clubs coming down the road.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mob	mob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	armed	arm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Travelers *= traveler* | a shout |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shout=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | a shout *not said here* | thief |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality thief=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look around** | gerund | a shout *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | Travelers *= traveler* *not said here* | a mob of people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mob=Stimulus |
| 5 | **arm** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  | with clubs | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with club=Theme |
| 6 | **come down** | gerund | clubs *not said here* | the road |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=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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