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title: He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good thing… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted him. Who acts: Dog, smell, good things. 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 clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 2

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He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted him.

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**Who acts:** Dog, smell, good things · **What happens:** be, tempt, smell · **To what, where:** Dog

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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 (Dog, smell, good things), 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:pg19994:59:2
# text = He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dog |  |  |  |  | to Dog's duty; faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tempt** | past | the smell of the good things in the basket |  | Dog |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **smell** |  | the good things in the basket |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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