The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 9

Then he planted his forefeet on his Master's knees and rolled out his tongue to lick the Master's face, as he had seen the Dog do.

Who acts: Ass, Dog · What happens: plant, roll out, lick, see, do · To what, where: forefeet, knees, face, Dog

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 planted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planted	nsubj
3	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 forefeet	nmod:poss
5	forefeet	forefeet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 knees	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Master	nmod:poss
8	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 knees	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Master	case
10	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 planted	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rolled	cc
12	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 planted	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 rolled	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tongue	nmod:poss
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lick	mark
17	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 planted	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Master	det
19	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 face	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Master	case
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lick	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 planted	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Dog	det
28	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	obj
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	plant	past	Ass	Ass's forefeet	Ass's Master's knees	then	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent forefeet=Theme tongue=Destination
2	roll out	participle	Ass not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lick	to-infinitive	Ass not said here	the Master's face			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source
4	see	past · perfect	Ass	the Dog			tree rules
5	do	infinitive	the Dog not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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