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title: In their search for game the hunters saw a number of Wild Goats run… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In their search for game the hunters saw a number of Wild Goats run into a cave, and laid plans to catch them. Who acts: hunters, Wild Goats, laid plans, Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 2

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In their search for game the hunters saw a number of Wild Goats run into a cave, and laid plans to catch them.

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**Who acts:** hunters, Wild Goats, laid plans, Lion · **What happens:** see, run, catch, search · **To what, where:** number, search, cave, Lion

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, Wild Goats, laid plans, Lion), 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:pg19994:58:2
# text = In their search for game the hunters saw a number of Wild Goats run into a cave, and laid plans to catch them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	laid	laid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the hunters | a number |  | Lion's search for game |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | present | Wild Goats | a number *not said here* |  | a cave |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent number=Theme into cave=Trajectory |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | laid plans | Lion |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **search** |  | Lion |  |  |  |  | for game | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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