The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 2

He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it.

Who acts: Wolf, skin · What happens: be, make, think · To what, where: nothing, Wolf

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, skin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nothing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 skin	cc
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bones	cc
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nothing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 downhearted	advmod
15	downhearted	downhearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 think	mark
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 downhearted	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wolf	nothing		tree rules
2	make	past	skin	Wolf	downhearted property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here		of skin	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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