The Aesop for Children, The Mischievous Dog, sentence 2

But the Dog seemed to be very proud of the clog and dragged it about noisily as if he wished to attract everybody's attention.

Who acts: Dog, everybody · What happens: seem, be, drag, wish, attract, attend · To what, where: clog, attention

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, everybody), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dog	det
3	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 proud	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 proud	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 proud	advmod
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 clog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clog	det
11	clog	clog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proud	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dragged	cc
13	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dragged	obj
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 noisily	advmod
16	noisily	noisily	ADV	_	13 dragged	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 wished	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 wished	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dragged	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 attract	mark
22	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wished	xcomp
23	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 attention	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 everybody	case
25	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 attract	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Dog			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the Dog not said here		of the clog; proud property	tree rules
3	drag	past	the Dog not said here	clog	noisily property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	wish	past	Dog			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	attract not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dog not said here	everybody's attention		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
6	attend		everybody			nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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