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title: He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Ho… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Housedog, so that he would not alarm his master by barking. Who acts: He. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 3

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He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Housedog, so that he would not alarm his master by barking.

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**Who acts:** He · **What happens:** bring, pacify, bark, slice · **To what, where:** several slices, order, Housedog, meat

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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:pg21:12:3
# text = He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Housedog, so that he would not alarm his master by barking.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	slices	slice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pacify	pacify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Housedog	housedog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | He | several slices of meat |  | order |  | with him *= he* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slice=Theme |
| 2 | **pacify** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | the Housedog |  |  |  | so alarm | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus housedog=Experiencer master=Result |
| 3 | **bark** | gerund | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **slice** |  |  | meat |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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