Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 91

But at last the Bitch, protected by the bodyguard of her Whelps, who had now grown up and were able to defend themselves, asserted her exclusive right to the place and would not permit the shepherd to approach.

Who acts: Whelps · What happens: protect, grow up, be, defend, assert, not permit · To what, where: last, Bitch, exclusive right, place, shepherd

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whelps), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 protected	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 protected	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bitch	det
5	Bitch	bitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
7	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 bodyguard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bodyguard	det
10	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protected	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Whelps	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Whelps	nmod:poss
13	Whelps	Whelp	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 bodyguard	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grown	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 grown	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grown	aux
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 grown	advmod
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 Whelps	acl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 grown	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 able	cc
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grown	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 defend	mark
24	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 defend	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asserted	punct
27	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 protected	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 right	nmod:poss
29	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 right	amod
30	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asserted	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 place	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asserted	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 permit	cc
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 permit	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 permit	advmod
37	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asserted	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shepherd	det
39	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 permit	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 approach	mark
41	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 permit	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 protected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	participle				last		by the bodyguard of legend's Whelps	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	grow up	past · perfect	legend's Whelps				now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	legend's Whelps not said here					able property	tree rules
4	defend	to-infinitive	legend's Whelps not said here	Bitch					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
5	assert	past		legend's exclusive right	the place				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent right=Theme to place=Recipient
6	not permit	would		the shepherd					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer shepherd=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	approach not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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