The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 1
Two Bulls were fighting furiously in a field, at one side of which was a marsh.
Who acts: Two Bulls, one side · What happens: fight, be · To what, where: field
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Bulls, one side), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Bulls | nummod |
| 2 | Bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fighting | aux |
| 4 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 4 fighting | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fighting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 side | nummod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fighting | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 marsh | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 marsh | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 marsh | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 marsh | det |
| 17 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · progressive | Two Bulls | a field | at one side; furiously property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | one side | of a marsh | 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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