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title: Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do to win his Master's favor was to act like the Dog. Who acts: jealous Ass, Ass, silly head, favor. 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 6

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Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do to win his Master's favor was to act like the Dog.

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**Who acts:** jealous Ass, Ass, silly head, favor · **What happens:** get, have, do, win, be, favor · **To what, where:** work, silly head

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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 (jealous Ass, Ass, silly head, favor), 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:pg19994:102:6
# text = Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do to win his Master's favor was to act like the Dog.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the jealous Ass | work |  | Ass's silly head | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Ass | Ass's silly head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ass's silly head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **win** | to-infinitive | Ass's silly head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | Ass's favor |  |  |  |  | like the Dog; act *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **favor** |  | Ass |  |  |  |  |  | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=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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