--- title: The Dog thus invited went at the hour appointed, and seeing the prep… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Dog thus invited went at the hour appointed, and seeing the preparations for so grand an entertainment, said in the joy of his heart, “How glad I am that I came! Who acts: Dog, hour. 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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, hour), 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:pg21:9:80 # text = The Dog thus invited went at the hour appointed, and seeing the preparations for so grand an entertainment, said in the joy of his heart, “How glad I am that I came! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 appointed appoint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 preparations preparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 entertainment entertainment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 31 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | past | the Dog *not said here* | | | | | thus *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | the Dog | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **appoint** | past | the hour | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | gerund | | the preparations | | | | for a grand entertainment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer preparation=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Dog *not said here* | | | the joy of man's heart | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Dog *= dog* | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the Dog *= dog* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **joy** | | | man's heart | | | | | nom joy «feeling 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/81/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/)