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title: At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him. Who acts: herdsman, several laborers, evening. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 42

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At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him.

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**Who acts:** herdsman, several laborers, evening · **What happens:** come, feed, not see, pass, fail, not notice · **To what, where:** approach, cattle, Stag, shed

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman, several laborers, evening), 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:pg21:7:42
# text = At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	laborers	laborer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the herdsman |  |  | the approach of the evening |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the herdsman *not said here* |  | herdsman's cattle |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | the herdsman *not said here* | the Stag |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass** | past | several laborers |  |  | the shed |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through shed=Location |
| 5 | **fail** | past | several laborers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **notice** | to-infinitive | several laborers *not said here* | Stag |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **approach** |  | the evening |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «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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