The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 2

It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would have turned up his nose at such meager fare had he not been more hungry than usual.

Who acts: It, Master Wolf, Wolf · What happens: happen, be, turn up, have, not be · To what, where: lean Dog, nose, such meager fare

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 (It, Master Wolf, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	10 Dog	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 Dog	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Dog	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 lean	advmod
7	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Dog	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bony	cc
9	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lean	conj
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
13	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wolf	compound
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 turned	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 turned	aux
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 happened	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 turned	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nose	nmod:poss
20	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 fare	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fare	amod
23	meager	meager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fare	amod
24	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hungry	nsubj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hungry	advmod
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 hungry	cop
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 hungry	advmod
30	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	ccomp
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 usual	case
32	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hungry	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a lean Dog			tree rules
3	turn up	would · perfect	Master Wolf	Wolf's nose			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme
4	have	past			such meager fare		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is	participle	Wolf			than usual; hungry 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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