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title: The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd. Who acts: Goatherd, ingratitude, thaw, Goats. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 73

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The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.

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**Who acts:** Goatherd, ingratitude, thaw, Goats · **What happens:** scold, leave, take, care · **To what, where:** Goats, thaw, more care

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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 (Goatherd, ingratitude, thaw, Goats), 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:pg21:5:73
# text = The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goatherd	Goatherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | past | the Goatherd | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  | for Goats's ingratitude | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for ingratitude=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | Goats's ingratitude *not said here* | thaw |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | thaw | more care of Goats |  |  | during the storm | than thaw's own herd | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **care** |  | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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