The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 2

But the Dog would not let them get near the manger, and snarled and snapped as if it were filled with the best of meat and bones, all for himself.

Who acts: Dog, them · What happens: not let, get, snarl, snap, fill · To what, where: them, manger, Dog

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, them), 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	_	6 let	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dog	det
3	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 manger	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 manger	det
11	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snarled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snarled	cc
14	snarled	snarl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 let	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 snapped	cc
16	snapped	snap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 snarled	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 filled	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 filled	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 filled	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 filled	aux:pass
21	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 snapped	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 best	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 best	det
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 filled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 meat	case
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 best	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bones	cc
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 meat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 snarled	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 all	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not let	would	the Dog	them = they			tree rules
2	get	infinitive	them = they not said here		the manger		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	snarl	participle					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	snap	participle					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fill	past · passive		Dog		with the best	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with good=Instrument

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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