Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 91

The Wolf therefore, thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the Fox to the Lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over them all and of not coming to visit him.

Who acts: Wolf, lion, respect · What happens: think, have, accuse, not pay, not come, visit · To what, where: capital opportunity, Fox, respect, rule, lion · 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 (Wolf, lion, respect), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 accused	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 Wolf	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
5	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Wolf	conj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 opportunity	det
10	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 opportunity	amod
11	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
13	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fox	det
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 accused	obj
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 paying	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Lion	det
18	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 paying	nsubj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 paying	mark
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 paying	advmod
21	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 accused	advcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 respect	det
23	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 paying	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 respect	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 respect	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rule	det
29	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	obl
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 coming	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 coming	cc
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 coming	mark
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 coming	advmod
36	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 had	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 visit	mark
38	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 coming	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 visit	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 accused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the Wolf not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	lion	a capital opportunity		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
3	accuse	past	the Wolf	the Fox		vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
4	not pay	gerund	the Lion	any respect	to Frog	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Asset
5	have	past	any respect	the rule	over Wolf	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
6	not come	gerund	any respect not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	visit	to-infinitive	any respect not said here	lion		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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