Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 130

Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.

Who acts: Having, Lion, unawares · What happens: have, succeed, separate, attack, feed, feast · To what, where: last, unawares, one

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Having, Lion, unawares), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 succeeded	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Having	obl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 speeches	case
5	guileful	guileful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speeches	amod
6	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 succeeded	obl
7	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 separating	mark
9	separating	separate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 succeeded	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 separating	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 attacked	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 attacked	nsubj
13	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 succeeded	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 attacked	obj
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 fear	case
16	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attacked	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 fed	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fed	nsubj
19	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 attacked	advcl
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 fed	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feasted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feasted	cc
23	feasted	feast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 succeeded	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 feasted	obl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 feasted	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 one	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 leisure	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 leisure	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leisure	amod
32	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund			last		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	succeed	past	Having			by guileful speeches	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	separate	gerund	Having not said here	unawares = unaware			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	attack	past	Lion	unawares = unaware		without fear	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	feed	past	unawares = unaware			alone property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	feast	participle	Having not said here	one		on unawares = unaware; by one at Lion's own leisure	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: «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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