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title: When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior. Who acts: farmer, Dog. 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 7

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When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior.

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**Who acts:** farmer, Dog · **What happens:** see, act, seize, drive · **To what, where:** stick, farmer, stable · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (farmer, 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:pg19994:71:7
# text = When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **act** | past · progressive | the Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seize** | past | farmer | a stick |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** | past | farmer *not said here* | farmer |  | the stable with a many blow for farmer's selfish behavior |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out stable=Trajectory |

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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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