The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 2
This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from his Master, as well as choice bits from his plate.
Who acts: Dog · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: favorite, many pat, Master
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:790): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 favorite | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 favorite | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 favorite | det |
| 5 | favorite | favorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 received | cc |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 favorite | conj |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pat | amod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pat | det |
| 10 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 word | cc |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pat | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Master | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bits | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 bits | cc |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 21 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bits | compound |
| 22 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pat | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 plate | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 plate | nmod:poss |
| 25 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bits | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 favorite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this Dog | a favorite | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | this Dog not said here | a many pat and kind word as choice bits from Dog's plate | Dog's Master | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pat=Theme from master=Source |
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.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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