Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 48

The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.

Who acts: Wolf, leisure · What happens: have, lacerate, destroy, cause · To what, where: cause, whole flock, fear

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 (Wolf, leisure), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 having	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 having	punct
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cause	det
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lacerated	punct
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 lacerated	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 leisure	nmod:poss
12	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lacerated	nsubj
13	lacerated	lacerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 having	parataxis
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 destroyed	cc
15	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lacerated	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flock	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flock	amod
18	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 destroyed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 having	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	gerund	the Wolf	no cause of fear	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient
2	lacerate	past	Wolf's leisure		tree rules
3	destroy	past	Wolf's leisure not said here	the whole flock	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient
4	cause			fear	nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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