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title: A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. Who acts: Dog. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 62

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A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.

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**Who acts:** Dog · **What happens:** use, run up, meet, bite · **To what, where:** DOG, heels

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. 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.

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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:pg21:5:62
# text = A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	DOG	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle · passive |  | a DOG |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **run up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the heels of everyone *result*; quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to heel=Result |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive |  | heels *= heel* |  |  |  | without notice | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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