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title: But the Dog seemed to be very proud of the clog and dragged it about… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Dog seemed to be very proud of the clog and dragged it about noisily as if he wished to attract everybody's attention. Who acts: Dog, everybody. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous Dog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mischievous Dog, sentence 2

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But the Dog seemed to be very proud of the clog and dragged it about noisily as if he wished to attract everybody's attention.

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**Who acts:** Dog, everybody · **What happens:** seem, be, drag, wish, attract, attend · **To what, where:** clog, attention

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous 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, everybody), 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:pg19994:112:2
# text = But the Dog seemed to be very proud of the clog and dragged it about noisily as if he wished to attract everybody's attention.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clog	clog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	noisily	noisily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the clog; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag** | past | the Dog *not said here* | clog |  |  |  | noisily *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | past | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **attract** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dog *not said here* | everybody's attention |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 6 | **attend** |  | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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