The Aesop for Children, The Mischievous Dog, sentence 1

There was once a Dog who was so ill-natured and mischievous that his Master had to fasten a heavy wooden clog about his neck to keep him from annoying visitors and neighbors.

Who acts: Dog, Master · What happens: be, have, fasten, keep · To what, where: heavy wooden clog, Dog

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous 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, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Dog	det
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 natured	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 natured	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 natured	advmod
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 natured	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct
11	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Dog	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mischievous	cc
13	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 natured	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Master	nmod:poss
16	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 natured	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fasten	mark
19	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 clog	det
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clog	amod
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clog	amod
23	clog	clog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fasten	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 neck	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 neck	nmod:poss
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clog	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fasten	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keep	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 visitors	case
31	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 visitors	amod
32	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 keep	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 neighbors	cc
34	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 visitors	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Dog			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a Dog				natured property	tree rules
3	be		a Dog not said here					tree rules
4	have	past	Dog's Master					tree rules
5	fasten	to-infinitive	Dog's Master not said here	a heavy wooden clog			about Dog's neck	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clog=Patient
6	keep	to-infinitive	Dog's Master not said here		Dog		from annoying visitors and neighbors	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from visitor=Eventuality

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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