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title: The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened. Who acts: Shepherd. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 6

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The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** see, flutter, guess, happen · **To what, where:** fluttering Jackdaw · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. 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:pg19994:9:6
# text = The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	_
10	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Shepherd | the fluttering Jackdaw |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jackdaw=Stimulus |
| 2 | **flutter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **guess** | past | the Shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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