The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 5
Though he was well fed, he had much work to do; besides, the Master hardly ever took any notice of him.
Who acts: Ass, Master · What happens: feed, have, do, besides, take, notice · To what, where: Ass, much work, notice
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 (Ass, Master), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 fed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fed | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 fed | advmod |
| 5 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 had | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 work | acl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 besides | punct |
| 14 | besides | besides | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Master | det |
| 17 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 took | advmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 besides | conj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 notice | det |
| 22 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 notice | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · passive | Ass | well property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Ass | much work | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | much work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | besides | infinitive | Ass not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | past | the Master | any notice of Ass | ever | hardly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||
| 6 | notice | Ass | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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