Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 64

Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: think, grow, go, tinkle, mark · To what, where: notice, marketplace, distinction

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 (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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 grew	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thinking	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mark	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thinking	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 distinction	case
6	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thinking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dog	det
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bell	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bell	nmod:poss
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proud	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	conj
17	tinkling	tinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 went	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tinkling	obj
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 marketplace	advmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 marketplace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 marketplace	det
22	marketplace	marketplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tinkling	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the Dog not said here	notice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme mark=Attribute
2	grow	past	the Dog			proud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	the Dog not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tinkle	gerund	the Dog not said here	notice	the marketplace		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	mark			distinction			nom mark «cognition 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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