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title: But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish to trust a Wolf. Who acts: Wolf. 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 6

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But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish to trust a Wolf.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** come back, see, kill, carry off, know, trust · **To what, where:** many, flock, Wolf

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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 (Wolf), 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:pg19994:77:6
# text = But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish to trust a Wolf.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **carry off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **trust** | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* | a Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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