The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 3

The Dogs in the neighborhood noticed him carrying the basket and soon discovered what was in it.

Who acts: Dogs, smell · What happens: notice, carry, discover, be · To what, where: smell, basket

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 (Dogs, smell), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dogs	det
2	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 noticed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 neighborhood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighborhood	det
5	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dogs	nmod
6	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 noticed	obj
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 noticed	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 basket	det
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 discovered	cc
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 discovered	advmod
13	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noticed	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 it	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 it	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 discovered	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	the Dogs in the neighborhood	smell			tree rules
2	carry	gerund	smell not said here	the basket			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
3	discover	past	the Dogs in the neighborhood not said here			soon property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			basket		tree rules

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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