Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 9

WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.

Who acts: WOLF · What happens: meet, resolve, not lay, find, justify, eat · To what, where: violent hands, plea, right, Lamb

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. 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	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resolved	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meeting	punct
3	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 WOLF	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Lamb	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Lamb	det
6	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meeting	obl
7	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Lamb	amod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 fold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fold	det
10	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astray	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 WOLF	punct
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 lay	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lay	mark
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 resolved	advcl
16	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lay	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 plea	det
25	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 justify	mark
27	justify	justify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 plea	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Lamb	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Lamb	det
30	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 justify	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Wolf	det
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 right	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Wolf	case
34	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 justify	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 eat	mark
36	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 right	acl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 eat	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund	WOLF not said here			with a Lamb	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lamb=Co-Agent
2	resolve	past	WOLF				tree rules
3	not lay	to-infinitive	WOLF not said here	violent hands		on Lamb	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on he=Destination
4	find	to-infinitive	WOLF not said here	some plea			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plea=Topic
5	justify speech: other	to-infinitive	WOLF not said here	the Wolf's right	the Lamb		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent right=Topic to lamb=Recipient
6	eat	to-infinitive	WOLF not said here	Lamb			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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