Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 29

The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favourite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat.

Who acts: Lapdog, master · What happens: know, be, fondle, go out, dine, bring · To what, where: many tricks, great favourite, Lapdog, tidbit

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lapdog, master), 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 Lapdog	det
2	Lapdog	Lapdog	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tricks	amod
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 favourite	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 favourite	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 favourite	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 favourite	amod
10	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 master	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 favourite	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fondled	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fondled	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 fondled	advmod
17	fondled	fondle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 master	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fondled	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fondled	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 dine	mark
24	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	xcomp
25	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 bringing	mark
26	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 dine	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bringing	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	26 bringing	advmod
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 tidbit	det
30	tidbit	tidbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bringing	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tidbit	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Lapdog	many tricks			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the Lapdog not said here	a great favourite		with Lapdog's master	tree rules
3	fondle	past	Lapdog's master	Lapdog		often property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
4	go out	past	Lapdog's master not said here			out, seldom property	tree rules
5	dine	to-infinitive	Lapdog's master not said here				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bring	gerund	Lapdog's master not said here	some tidbit	Lapdog	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination tidbit=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	Lapdog's master not said here	some tidbit not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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