The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Reflection, sentence 1

A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: throw, hurry, go · To what, where: butcher

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Reflection. 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hurrying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thrown	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thrown	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 butcher	det
7	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thrown	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thrown	aux
9	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Dog	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bone	det
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thrown	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dog	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hurrying	aux
14	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 hurrying	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 prize	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 prize	nmod:poss
18	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hurrying	obl
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 hurrying	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fast	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hurrying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past · perfect · passive		the butcher	to a Dog	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination bone=Theme
2	hurry	past · progressive	a Dog		with Dog's prize; fast, home property	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with prize=Eventuality
3	go	could	Dog			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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