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title: A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf! Who acts: SHEPHERD, village. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 44

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A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf!

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**Who acts:** SHEPHERD, village · **What happens:** watch, bring out, cry out · **To what, where:** flock, village, villagers

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SHEPHERD, village), 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:pg21:5:44
# text = A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf!
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SHEPHERD	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	BOY	BOY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | a SHEPHERD | a flock of sheep |  | a village |  | Wolf *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme |
| 2 | **bring out** | participle | a village *not said here* | the villagers |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent villager=Patient |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | a village *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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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