The Aesop for Children, Three Bullocks and a Lion, sentence 1
A Lion had been watching three Bullocks feeding in an open field.
Who acts: Lion, three Bullocks · What happens: watch, feed · To what, where: three Bullocks, open field
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Three Bullocks and a Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, three Bullocks), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watching | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 watching | aux |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Bullocks | nummod |
| 7 | Bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Bullocks | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 field | amod |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeding | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | a Lion | three Bullocks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | gerund | three Bullocks not said here | a open field | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location |
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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