The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 10
They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner.
Who acts: things, Dog · What happens: make, feel, drop, seize, intend · To what, where: Dog, basket, large piece, roast meat
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ridiculous | advmod |
| 7 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dropped | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dropped | nsubj |
| 10 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ridiculous | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dropped | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seized | cc |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dropped | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 piece | amod |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 meat | case |
| 19 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meat | compound |
| 20 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 21 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 meat | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 dinner | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 master | case |
| 26 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 intended | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | things = thing | Dog | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | Dog not said here | ridiculous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | Dog | the basket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | Dog not said here | a large piece of roast meat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 5 | intend | participle | roast meat not said here | for Dog's master's dinner | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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