--- title: A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about hi… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. Who acts: WOLF, Mastiff. 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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 (WOLF, Mastiff), 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:pg21:8:10 # text = A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 WOLF wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 Mastiff mastiff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 yet yet ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 compelled compel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 34 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 35 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 about about SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | gerund | a WOLF *not said here* | a big fed Mastiff | | | | with a wooden collar about Mastiff's neck | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mastiff=Theme with collar=Instrument | | 2 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a WOLF | | Mastiff | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | | | feed, well *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **compel** | past | | Mastiff | | | yet | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | | 6 | **drag** | to-infinitive | | that heavy log | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme | | 7 | **go** | past | Mastiff | | | | | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/11/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/)