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title: Though he was well fed, he had much work to do; besides, the Master… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Though he was well fed, he had much work to do; besides, the Master hardly ever took any notice of him. Who acts: Ass, 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 clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 5

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Though he was well fed, he had much work to do; besides, the Master hardly ever took any notice of him.

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**Who acts:** Ass, Master · **What happens:** feed, have, do, besides, take, notice · **To what, where:** Ass, much work, notice

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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 (Ass, 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:pg19994:102:5
# text = Though he was well fed, he had much work to do; besides, the Master hardly ever took any notice of him.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	besides	besides	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past · passive |  | Ass |  |  |  | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | past | Ass | much work |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ass *not said here* | much work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **besides** | infinitive | Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past | the Master | any notice of Ass |  |  | ever | hardly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 6 | **notice** |  |  | Ass |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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