--- title: While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of his meal. Who acts: Dog. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:16:115 # text = While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of his meal. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hammered hammer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 at at 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 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 wagged wag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hammer away** | past | Dog | | | | | at Dog's metals; away *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at metal=Patient | | 2 | **sleep** | past | the Dog | Dog's metals *not said here* | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Dog | | | the other hand | | to dinner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **begin** | past | Dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wake up** | past | the Dog | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **wag** | past | the Dog *not said here* | Dog's tail | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Dog | | | | | for a share of Dog's meal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **share** | | | Dog's meal | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/116/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/)