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title: The Master was much alarmed at the strange behavior of the Ass, and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Master was much alarmed at the strange behavior of the Ass, and calling for help, soon attracted the attention of the servants. Who acts: servants. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 11

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The Master was much alarmed at the strange behavior of the Ass, and calling for help, soon attracted the attention of the servants.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** alarm, call, attract, attend · **To what, where:** Master, strange behavior, attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:102:11
# text = The Master was much alarmed at the strange behavior of the Ass, and calling for help, soon attracted the attention of the servants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alarm** | past · passive |  | the Master |  | the strange behavior of the Ass |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **call** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 3 | **attract** | past |  | the attention of the servants |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 4 | **attend** |  | the servants |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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