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title: "Is that the thanks I get for feeding you and treating you so well?"… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Is that the thanks I get for feeding you and treating you so well?" complained the Shepherd. Who acts: 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 5

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"Is that the thanks I get for feeding you and treating you so well?" complained the Shepherd.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** get, feed, treat, be · **To what, where:** thanks, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg19994:87:5
# text = "Is that the thanks I get for feeding you and treating you so well?" complained the Shepherd.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present | the Shepherd *= shepherd* | the thanks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thanks=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feed** *in a quote* | gerund | the Shepherd *= shepherd* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **treat** *in a quote* | gerund | the Shepherd *= shepherd* *not said here* |  | you |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **be** *speech: other* | present | the Shepherd |  |  |  |  | complain *property* | tree rules |

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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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