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title: Some hungry Dogs saw a number of hides at the bottom of a stream whe… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Some hungry Dogs saw a number of hides at the bottom of a stream where the Tanner had put them to soak. Who acts: hungry Dogs. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 1

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Some hungry Dogs saw a number of hides at the bottom of a stream where the Tanner had put them to soak.

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**Who acts:** hungry Dogs · **What happens:** see, put, soak · **To what, where:** number, Tanner

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry Dogs), 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:pg19994:65:1
# text = Some hungry Dogs saw a number of hides at the bottom of a stream where the Tanner had put them to soak.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Tanner	Tanner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	soak	soak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | some hungry Dogs | a number of hides at the bottom of a stream |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Tanner |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset they=Goal |
| 3 | **soak** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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