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title: That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children. 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 8

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That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Jackdaw, children

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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:pg19994:9:8
# text = That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Shepherd | the Jackdaw | Shepherd's children |  | evening |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jackdaw=Theme to child=Recipient |

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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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