The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 3

Every day the Dog would run to meet the Master, frisking playfully about and leaping up to lick his hands and face.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: run, meet, frisk, leap up, lick · To what, where: Master, hands

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dog	det
4	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 meet	mark
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 run	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Master	det
10	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meet	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frisking	punct
12	frisking	frisk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 run	advcl
13	playfully	playfully	ADV	_	14 about	advmod
14	about	about	ADV	_	12 frisking	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 leaping	cc
16	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 frisking	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 leaping	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 lick	mark
19	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 leaping	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lick	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 face	cc
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hands	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the Dog		day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	meet	to-infinitive	the Dog not said here	the Master			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Co-Agent
3	frisk	gerund	the Dog not said here			about property	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
4	leap up	gerund	the Dog not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lick	to-infinitive	the Dog not said here	Dog's hands and face			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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