Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 52

A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.

Who acts: MAN, Hound, Housedog · What happens: have, train, assist, teach, watch, sport · To what, where: two dogs, Hound, Man, sports, house

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN, Hound, Housedog), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 MAN	det
2	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 dogs	nummod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Hound	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Hound	det
8	Hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dogs	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trained	punct
10	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Hound	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 assist	mark
12	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trained	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 assist	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sports	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sports	nmod:poss
16	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 assist	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taught	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taught	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Housedog	det
20	Housedog	housedog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taught	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Housedog	punct
22	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 watch	mark
24	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 taught	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 watch	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	a MAN	two dogs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	train	participle		a Hound not said here			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	assist	to-infinitive	a Hound not said here		Man	Man's sports	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	teach speech: other	past	a Housedog				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	watch	to-infinitive	a Housedog not said here	the house			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	sport		Man				nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=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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