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title: But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 46

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But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd, occasion · **What happens:** keep, not make, seize, begin, look, call · **To what, where:** Wolf, company, slightest effort, Shepherd, city, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, occasion), 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:pg21:12:46
# text = But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	45	cc	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	plotter	plotter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	against	against	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
52	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
53	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	advcl	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
58	into	into	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
62	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obj	_	_
66	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | participle · passive |  | the Wolf |  | the company of the sheep |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in company=Location |
| 2 | **not** **make** | past · do-support |  | the slightest effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the Shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Shepherd; as a guardian of Shepherd's flock rather a plotter of evil against flock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | past | occasion | Shepherd |  | the city | day |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic into city=Recipient |
| 7 | **leave** | past | Shepherd | the sheep |  | Shepherd's charge |  | entirely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in charge=Location |
| 8 | **charge** |  | Shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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