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title: When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills. Who acts: weather, Shepherd. 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 4

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When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills.

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**Who acts:** weather, Shepherd · **What happens:** clear, lead, feed, scamper off · **To what, where:** Wild Goats, hills

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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 (weather, 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:pg19994:87:4
# text = When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Goats	Goat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Goats	Goat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the Shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the Shepherd *not said here* |  | the Wild Goats |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient |
| 4 | **scamper off** | participle |  | the Wild Goats *not said here* |  | the hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hill=Destination |

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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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