The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 9

He now began to glare at the others very savagely. "

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: begin, glare · To what, where: others

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 glare	mark
5	glare	glare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 others	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glare	obl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 savagely	advmod
10	savagely	savagely	ADV	_	5 glare	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Wolf				now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	glare	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here			the others		savagely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at other=Location

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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