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title: At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he fo… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be. Who acts: Shepherd. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 4

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At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** use, see, forget, be · **To what, where:** last, Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. 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.

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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:pg19994:77:4
# text = At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | last |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |
| 3 | **forget** | past | Shepherd |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **can** | could | Shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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