The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 6
The beaten Bull was driven to the marsh, where his great hoofs crushed the Frogs to death.
Who acts: great hoofs · What happens: beat, drive, crush · To what, where: beaten Bull, marsh, Frogs
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 (great hoofs), 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 | 3 Bull | det |
| 2 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Bull | amod |
| 3 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 driven | aux:pass |
| 5 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 marsh | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 marsh | det |
| 8 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crushed | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 crushed | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hoofs | amod |
| 13 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crushed | nsubj |
| 14 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 driven | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Frogs | det |
| 16 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crushed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crushed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | the beaten Bull | the marsh | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to marsh=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | crush | past | Frog's great hoofs | the Frogs | to death result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent frog=Patient to death=Result |
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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