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title: A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the f… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. Who acts: HERDSMAN, forest. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 107

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A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.

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**Who acts:** HERDSMAN, forest · **What happens:** tend, lose · **To what, where:** flock, forest, Bull calf, fold

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HERDSMAN, forest), 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:pg21:3:107
# text = A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	HERDSMAN	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | gerund | a HERDSMAN *not said here* | Bull's flock |  | a forest |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | a forest *not said here* | a Bull calf |  | the fold |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme from fold=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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