Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 14

The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.

Who acts: Wolf, Fox · What happens: proportion, think, give, leave, consort, lack · To what, where: sense, name, Fox, earnest, own race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Fox), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lack	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 lack	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lack	det
6	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wolf	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sense	case
8	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lack	nmod
9	proportioned	proportion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sense	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 size	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 size	nmod:poss
12	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 size	amod
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proportioned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 gave	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 name	det
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 earnest	case
23	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 gave	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 leaving	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 leaving	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 leaving	punct
27	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thought	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 race	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 race	amod
30	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leaving	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 consorted	punct
32	consorted	consort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 leaving	advcl
33	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	32 consorted	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 lions	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 lions	det
36	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 consorted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	proportion	participle		sense not said here			to Fox's enormous size	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the Wolf					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	give	past	Wolf	this name	Fox	earnest		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme
4	leave	gerund	the Wolf not said here	Fox's own race				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme
5	consort	participle	the Wolf not said here				with the lions; exclusively property	tree rules
6	lack			sense				nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient
7	race		Fox					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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