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title: The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. Who acts: foolish Goat, Goat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 8

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The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out.

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**Who acts:** foolish Goat, Goat · **What happens:** see, get, beg, help out · **To what, where:** plight, Fox, Goat

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish Goat, Goat), 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:pg19994:75:8
# text = The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the foolish Goat |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | Goat | a plight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plight=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the foolish Goat *not said here* |  | the Fox |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient |
| 4 | **help out** | to-infinitive | the foolish Goat *not said here* |  | Goat |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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