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title: Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the peopl… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house. Who acts: you, people. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 12

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Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house.

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** chase, carry, bark · **To what, where:** people, canes

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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:pg19994:107:12
# text = Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house.
1	Chase	chase	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	canes	cane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bark	bark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | imperative | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  | fawn on the people of the house *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present | people | canes |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme |
| 3 | **bark** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at beggars | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at beggar=Stimulus |

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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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