Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 115

While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of his meal.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: hammer away, sleep, go, begin, eat, wake up · To what, where: metals, other hand, tail, meal

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 hammered	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hammered	nsubj
3	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 hammered	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 metals	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 metals	nmod:poss
7	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hammered	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dog	det
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slept	nsubj
10	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 metals	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 hand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hand	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hand	amod
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hand	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hammered	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 dinner	case
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 woke	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Dog	det
30	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 woke	nsubj
31	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	parataxis
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 woke	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wagged	cc
34	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 woke	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tail	nmod:poss
36	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wagged	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ask	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 ask	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 ask	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 ask	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 ask	aux
42	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wagged	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 share	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 share	det
45	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ask	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 meal	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 meal	nmod:poss
48	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 share	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hammered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hammer away	past	Dog			at Dog's metals; away property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at metal=Patient
2	sleep	past	the Dog	Dog's metals not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Theme
3	go	past	Dog		the other hand	to dinner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	Dog not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	Dog not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wake up	past	the Dog				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	wag	past	the Dog not said here	Dog's tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
8	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	would	Dog			for a share of Dog's meal	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	share			Dog's meal			nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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