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title: This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from h… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from his Master, as well as choice bits from his plate. Who acts: Dog. 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 2

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This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from his Master, as well as choice bits from his plate.

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**Who acts:** Dog · **What happens:** be, receive · **To what, where:** favorite, many pat, Master

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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 (Dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:790`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:102:2
# text = This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from his Master, as well as choice bits from his plate.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	favorite	favorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pat	pat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
21	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this Dog | a favorite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | past | this Dog *not said here* | a many pat and kind word as choice bits from Dog's plate |  | Dog's Master |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pat=Theme from master=Source |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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