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title: A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. Who acts: Dog. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Reflection, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Reflection, sentence 1

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A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go.

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**Who acts:** Dog · **What happens:** throw, hurry, go · **To what, where:** butcher

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Reflection. 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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**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:pg19994:127:1
# text = A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the butcher |  |  |  | to a Dog | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination bone=Theme |
| 2 | **hurry** | past · progressive | a Dog |  |  |  |  | with Dog's prize; fast, home *property* | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with prize=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | could | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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