Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 53

The whelp of a Wolf was brought him, with a request that he would feel it, and say what it was.

Who acts: lion, Whelp · What happens: bring, feel, say, be · To what, where: whelp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, Whelp), 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 whelp	det
2	whelp	whelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Wolf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whelp	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux:pass
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 request	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 request	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 request	det
12	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 feel	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feel	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 feel	aux
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 request	acl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feel	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 feel	conj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 say	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 what	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	cop
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		the whelp of a Wolf	with a request	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
2	feel	would	lion	Whelp		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	lion not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Whelp			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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