The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Reflection, sentence 3

But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.

Who acts: greedy Dog, Dog, real Dog · What happens: think, see, carry · To what, where: real Dog, bone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (greedy Dog, Dog, real 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dog	det
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Dog	amod
4	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Dog	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Dog	amod
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 Dog	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bone	det
13	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carrying	obj
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 bigger	advmod
15	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 carrying	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 own	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bigger	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the greedy Dog			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	past	Dog	a real Dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
3	carry	gerund	a real Dog not said here	a bone	big property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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