The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 6

Then one day all the Dogs in the neighborhood got together and met him on his way with the basket.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: get together, meet · To what, where: Dog, way

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 got	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Then	obl:unmarked
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Dogs	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dogs	det
6	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 neighborhood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neighborhood	det
9	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Dogs	nmod
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 met	cc
13	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 basket	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 basket	det
20	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get together	past	all Dogs in the neighborhood				then	together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	meet	past	all Dogs in the neighborhood not said here	Dog		Dog's way with the basket			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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