The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 4

The Wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the House Dog looked strong enough to leave his marks should he try it.

Who acts: Wolf, House Dog · What happens: eat, look, leave, try, mark · To what, where: fat, marks, little

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, House Dog), 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	6 eaten	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	6 eaten	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 eaten	aux
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	obj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 eaten	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 there	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 then	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Dog	det
14	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Dog	compound
15	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	parataxis
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looked	xcomp
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 strong	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 leave	mark
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 strong	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 marks	nmod:poss
22	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 leave	obj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 try	aux
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 try	nsubj
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 looked	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 try	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · perfect	the Wolf	fat	then	gladly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	look	past	the House Dog			strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	leave	to-infinitive	the House Dog not said here	Wolf's marks			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
4	try	should	Wolf	little			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	mark		Wolf				nom mark «cognition 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: «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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