The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion, sentence 6
A Bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs.
Who acts: Bull · What happens: trample · To what, where: Lion
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull), 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 Bull | det |
| 2 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trampled | nsubj |
| 3 | trampled | trample | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trampled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hoofs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hoofs | amod |
| 8 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trampled | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trampled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample | past | a Bull | Lion | with Lion's heavy hoofs | tree rules |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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