The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 8

They persuaded the Dogs to go away, and that very evening the Wolves had the grandest feast of their lives.

Who acts: Sheep, Wolves · What happens: persuade, go away, have · To what, where: Dogs, grandest feast

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep, Wolves), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuaded	nsubj
2	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dogs	det
4	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 persuaded	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 persuaded	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 evening	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 evening	advmod
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wolves	det
14	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 persuaded	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feast	det
17	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 feast	amod
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 lives	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lives	nmod:poss
21	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feast	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	Sheep	the Dogs			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	go away	to-infinitive	Sheep not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the Wolves	the grandest feast of Sheep's lives	evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient

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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