Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 10

A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went.

Who acts: WOLF, Mastiff · What happens: meet, feed, ask, be, compel, drag · To what, where: big fed Mastiff, Mastiff, heavy log

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOLF, Mastiff), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 WOLF	det
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meeting	punct
4	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 WOLF	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Mastiff	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Mastiff	amod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 fed	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Mastiff	amod
10	Mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meeting	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 collar	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 collar	det
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 collar	amod
14	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meeting	obl
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 neck	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neck	nmod:poss
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 collar	nmod
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fed	nsubj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fed	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fed	cop
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 fed	mark
24	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fed	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 fed	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 compelled	cc
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 compelled	advmod
30	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fed	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 compelled	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 drag	mark
33	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 compelled	xcomp
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 log	det
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 log	amod
36	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drag	obj
37	about	about	SCONJ	_	40 went	mark
38	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	40 went	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 log	acl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund	a WOLF not said here	a big fed Mastiff			with a wooden collar about Mastiff's neck	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mastiff=Theme with collar=Instrument
2	feed	participle					well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	a WOLF		Mastiff			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past					feed, well property	tree rules
5	compel	past		Mastiff		yet		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
6	drag	to-infinitive		that heavy log				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme
7	go	past	Mastiff				wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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