The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 14

The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he almost wept.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: have, come, weep · To what, where: beautiful vision, coming happiness

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 vision	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vision	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vision	amod
7	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 happiness	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 happiness	nmod:poss
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 happiness	amod
11	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vision	nmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wept	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wept	nsubj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 wept	advmod
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happiness	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Wolf	such beautiful vision of Wolf's coming happiness		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient
2	come	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	weep	past	Wolf	Wolf's coming happiness not said here	almost property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent happiness=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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