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title: They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner. Who acts: things, Dog. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 10

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They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner.

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**Who acts:** things, Dog · **What happens:** make, feel, drop, seize, intend · **To what, where:** Dog, basket, large piece, roast meat

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, 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:pg19994:59:10
# text = They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | things *= thing* | Dog |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ridiculous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **drop** | past | Dog | the basket |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 4 | **seize** | past | Dog *not said here* | a large piece of roast meat |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 5 | **intend** | participle |  | roast meat *not said here* |  |  |  | for Dog's master's dinner | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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