The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 31

Immediately they all fell upon him, the Wolf in the lead, and soon had made an end to him, sacrificing him to the gods then and there, and without the formality of an altar.

Who acts: grass · What happens: fall, make, sacrifice · To what, where: Wolf, end, Ass, gods

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 (grass), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fell	advmod
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Wolf	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wolf	det
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 lead	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lead	det
12	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Wolf	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 made	advmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fell	conj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sacrificing	punct
23	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 made	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sacrificing	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 gods	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gods	det
27	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sacrificing	obl
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sacrificing	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 there	cc
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 then	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 formality	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 formality	cc
33	without	without	ADP	_	35 formality	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 formality	det
35	formality	formality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 altar	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 altar	det
38	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 formality	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	grass	the Wolf in the lead			upon Ass; without the formality of a altar; immediately property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	make	past · perfect	grass not said here	a end	Ass		soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product
3	sacrifice	gerund	grass not said here	Ass	the gods	then		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to god=Recipient

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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