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title: But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain m… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Who acts: shepherd. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 97

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But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.

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**Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** return, obtain, catch up, kill · **To what, where:** meat, shepherd

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. 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:pg21:4:97
# text = But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
14	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	mistakenly	mistakenly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  | night | to the fold *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to fold=Result |
| 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | the shepherd *not said here* | meat |  |  | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Theme |
| 3 | **catch up** | participle · passive |  | the shepherd |  |  |  | instead a sheep; mistakenly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wolf=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | past |  | shepherd |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:** «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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