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title: One cold stormy day a Goatherd drove his Goats for shelter into a ca… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One cold stormy day a Goatherd drove his Goats for shelter into a cave, where a number of Wild Goats had also found their way. Who acts: Goatherd. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 1

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One cold stormy day a Goatherd drove his Goats for shelter into a cave, where a number of Wild Goats had also found their way.

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**Who acts:** Goatherd · **What happens:** drive, find · **To what, where:** Goats, cave, number

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goatherd), 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:pg19994:87:1
# text = One cold stormy day a Goatherd drove his Goats for shelter into a cave, where a number of Wild Goats had also found their way.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Goatherd	Goatherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | a Goatherd | Goatherd's Goats |  | a cave | day | for shelter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme into cave=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | a number of Wild Goats |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme way=Attribute |

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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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