The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 23

Then, though the Tiger, the Bear, the Wolf, and all the savage beasts recited the most wicked deeds, all were excused and made to appear very saint-like and innocent.

Who acts: Tiger · What happens: recite, excuse, make, appear · To what, where: wicked deeds, all

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 recited	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Tiger	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 Tiger	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tiger	det
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 recited	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Bear	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bear	det
8	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Tiger	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Wolf	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wolf	det
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Bear	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 recited	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 recited	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 beasts	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beasts	det
16	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beasts	amod
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 recited	nsubj
18	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 deeds	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 wicked	advmod
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 deeds	amod
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 recited	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 excused	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 excused	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 excused	aux:pass
26	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 recited	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 excused	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 appear	mark
30	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	xcomp
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 saint	advmod
32	saint	saint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 appear	xcomp
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 like	punct
34	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 saint	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 innocent	cc
36	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 saint	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 recited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	recite	past	the Tiger	the wicked deeds	then		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme
2	excuse	past · passive		all			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	make	participle					tree rules
4	appear	to-infinitive				saint property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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