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title: A Dog asleep in a manger filled with hay, was awakened by the Cattle… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Dog asleep in a manger filled with hay, was awakened by the Cattle, which came in tired and hungry from working in the field. Who acts: Cattle. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 1

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A Dog asleep in a manger filled with hay, was awakened by the Cattle, which came in tired and hungry from working in the field.

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**Who acts:** Cattle · **What happens:** fill, awaken, come in, work · **To what, where:** manger, Dog

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cattle), 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:pg19994:71:1
# text = A Dog asleep in a manger filled with hay, was awakened by the Cattle, which came in tired and hungry from working in the field.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	manger	manger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Cattle	Cattle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | participle |  | a manger *not said here* |  |  |  | with hay | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hay=Instrument |
| 2 | **awaken** | past · passive | the Cattle | a Dog |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come in** | past | the Cattle |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | the Cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the field | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=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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