Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 47

The Wolf, now that he had the opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the flock.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: have, fall, destroy · To what, where: opportunity, greater part

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 had	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 opportunity	det
9	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 sheep	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sheep	det
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 destroyed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 destroyed	cc
17	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fell	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 part	det
19	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 part	amod
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 destroyed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 flock	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flock	det
23	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 part	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Wolf	the opportunity	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
2	fall	past				upon the sheep	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sheep=Location
3	destroy	past		the greater part of the flock			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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: «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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