Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 85

He requested that the Wolf pull it out, lest when he ate him it should injure his throat.

Who acts: feeding, Wolf, cause · What happens: request, pull out, eat, injure · To what, where: cause, Acquaintance, throat

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 (feeding, Wolf, cause), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	nsubj
2	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 pull	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pull	nsubj
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 requested	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pull	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 pull	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 ate	mark
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 ate	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 requested	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	obj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 injure	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 injure	aux
17	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ate	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 throat	nmod:poss
19	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 injure	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 requested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	request	past	feeding		vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	pull out	infinitive	the Wolf	cause	tree rules
3	eat	past	feeding	Acquaintance	tree rules
4	injure	should	cause	feeding's throat	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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