The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 17

But the "porter" was a huge Dog whom the Wolf knew by painful experience to be very unkind toward wolves.

Who acts: porter, Wolf · What happens: be, know · To what, where: huge Dog

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 porter	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 porter	punct
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Dog	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 porter	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Dog	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Dog	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Dog	amod
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 knew	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wolf	det
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Dog	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 experience	case
15	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 experience	amod
16	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	20 unkind	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 unkind	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 unkind	advmod
20	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knew	advcl
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	22 wolves	case
22	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 unkind	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Dog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the porter	a huge Dog		tree rules
2	know	past	the Wolf	a huge Dog	by painful experience	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive	the Wolf not said here		toward wolves; unkind property	tree rules

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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