Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 83

While he was congratulating himself and wagging his tail to convey his pleasure to his friend, the Cook saw him moving about among his dishes and, seizing him by his fore and hind paws, bundled him without ceremony out of the window.

Who acts: care, Cook · What happens: congratulate, wag, convey, see, move about, seize · To what, where: care, tail, pleasure, friend, dishes, window

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, Cook), 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	_	4 congratulating	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 congratulating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 congratulating	aux
4	congratulating	congratulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 saw	advcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 congratulating	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wagging	cc
7	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 congratulating	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wagging	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 convey	mark
11	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wagging	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pleasure	nmod:poss
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 convey	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 friend	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friend	nmod:poss
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 convey	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 congratulating	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cook	det
19	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	obj
22	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 saw	xcomp
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 moving	advmod
24	among	among	ADP	_	26 dishes	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dishes	nmod:poss
26	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 moving	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seizing	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seizing	punct
29	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 moving	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seizing	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	36 paws	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 paws	nmod:poss
33	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 paws	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hind	cc
35	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fore	conj
36	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 seizing	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bundled	punct
38	bundled	bundle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bundled	obj
40	without	without	ADP	_	41 ceremony	case
41	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bundled	obl
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 window	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 window	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 window	det
45	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bundled	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	congratulate	past · progressive	care	care				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	wag	gerund	care not said here	care's tail				tree rules
3	convey	to-infinitive	care not said here	care's pleasure	care's friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic to friend=Recipient
4	see	past	the Cook	care				tree rules
5	move about	gerund	care not said here			care's dishes	about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among dish=Trajectory
6	seize	gerund	care not said here	care			by care's fore paws	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	bundle	past	the Cook not said here	care		the window	without ceremony	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	please		care					nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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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