--- title: While he was congratulating himself and wagging his tail to convey h… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: While he was congratulating himself and wagging his tail to convey his pleasure to his friend, the Cook saw him moving about among his dishes and, seizing him by his fore and hind paws, bundled him without ceremony out of the window. Who acts: care, Cook. 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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 (care, Cook), 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:pg21:9:83 # text = While he was congratulating himself and wagging his tail to convey his pleasure to his friend, the Cook saw him moving about among his dishes and, seizing him by his fore and hind paws, bundled him without ceremony out of the window. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 congratulating congratulate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wagging wag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 convey convey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to 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 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Cook Cook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 among among ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 seizing seize VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fore fore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 bundled bundle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 without without ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **congratulate** | past · progressive | care | care | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 2 | **wag** | gerund | care *not said here* | care's tail | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **convey** | to-infinitive | care *not said here* | care's pleasure | care's friend | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic to friend=Recipient | | 4 | **see** | past | the Cook | care | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move about** | gerund | care *not said here* | | | care's dishes | | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among dish=Trajectory | | 6 | **seize** | gerund | care *not said here* | care | | | | by care's fore paws | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **bundle** | past | the Cook *not said here* | care | | the window | | without ceremony | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 8 | **please** | | care | | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/84/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/9/)