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title: A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, an… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. Who acts: MAN, Hound, Housedog. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 52

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A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.

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**Who acts:** MAN, Hound, Housedog · **What happens:** have, train, assist, teach, watch, sport · **To what, where:** two dogs, Hound, Man, sports, house

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN, Hound, Housedog), 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:pg21:7:52
# text = A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Housedog	housedog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a MAN | two dogs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  | a Hound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **assist** | to-infinitive | a Hound *not said here* |  | Man | Man's sports |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | a Housedog |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a Housedog *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 6 | **sport** |  | Man |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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