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title: But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own. Who acts: greedy Dog, Dog, real 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 3

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But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.

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**Who acts:** greedy Dog, Dog, real Dog · **What happens:** think, see, carry · **To what, where:** real Dog, bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (greedy Dog, Dog, real 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:pg19994:127:3
# text = But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
16	than	than	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	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the greedy Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Dog | a real Dog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a real Dog *not said here* | a bone |  |  |  | big *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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