Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 102

The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.

Who acts: Wolves, sheep · What happens: beguile, dismiss, destroy, please · To what, where: Sheep, Dogs, unguarded flock, own pleasure

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolves, sheep), 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 Sheep	det
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beguiled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creatures	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Sheep	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sheep	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beguiled	aux:pass
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 beguiled	advmod
10	beguiled	beguile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dismissed	cc
12	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beguiled	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dogs	det
14	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dismissed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 destroyed	punct
16	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	19 destroyed	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Wolves	det
18	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 destroyed	nsubj
19	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dismissed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flock	det
21	unguarded	unguarded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flock	amod
22	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 destroyed	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 pleasure	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pleasure	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pleasure	amod
26	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 destroyed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 beguiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beguile	past · passive		the Sheep and poor silly creatures		easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	dismiss	past		the Dogs			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
3	destroy	past	the Wolves	the unguarded flock	sheep's own pleasure	whereupon property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient
4	please		sheep				nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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