The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 2

He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted him.

Who acts: Dog, smell, good things · What happens: be, tempt, smell · To what, where: Dog

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 (Dog, smell, good things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faithful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faithful	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 faithful	advmod
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 duty	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 duty	nmod:poss
7	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faithful	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tempted	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 tempted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smell	det
11	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tempted	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 things	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 things	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 smell	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 basket	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 basket	det
18	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 things	nmod
19	tempted	tempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faithful	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tempted	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 faithful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dog		to Dog's duty; faithful property	tree rules
2	tempt	past	the smell of the good things in the basket	Dog		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	smell		the good things in the basket			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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