The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 7
When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior.
Who acts: farmer, Dog · What happens: see, act, seize, drive · To what, where: stick, farmer, stable · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (farmer, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | advcl |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 acting | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dog | det |
| 6 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 acting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 acting | aux |
| 8 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stick | det |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drove | cc |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drove | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 stable | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stable | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stable | det |
| 20 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drove | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blow | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blow | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 blow | det |
| 24 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stable | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 behavior | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 27 | selfish | selfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 behavior | amod |
| 28 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blow | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | farmer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | act | past · progressive | the Dog | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | farmer | a stick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | farmer not said here | farmer | the stable with a many blow for farmer's selfish behavior | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out stable=Trajectory |
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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