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description: When they saw the danger the Master was in from the clumsy beast, they set upon the Ass and drove him with kicks and blows back to the stable. Who acts: servants, Master. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 12

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When they saw the danger the Master was in from the clumsy beast, they set upon the Ass and drove him with kicks and blows back to the stable.

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**Who acts:** servants, Master · **What happens:** see, be, set, drive, blow back · **To what, where:** danger, clumsy beast, Ass, Master, stable · **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, Master), 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:pg19994:102:12
# text = When they saw the danger the Master was in from the clumsy beast, they set upon the Ass and drove him with kicks and blows back to the stable.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	ccomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	kicks	kick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | servants *= servant* | the danger |  | the clumsy beast |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Master |  |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | present | servants *= servant* |  |  | the Ass |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon ass=Destination |
| 4 | **drive** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | Master |  |  |  | with kicks | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **blow back** | present | servants *= servant* *not said here* |  | the stable |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stable=Recipient |

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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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