The Aesop for Children, Three Bullocks and a Lion, sentence 3

The Lion had little hope of eating them, for he was no match for three strong Bullocks with their sharp horns and hoofs.

Who acts: Lion, little hope · What happens: have, eat, be · To what, where: little hope, Bullocks

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, little hope), 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	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hope	amod
5	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hope	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eating	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 match	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 match	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 match	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 match	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 match	det
14	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 Bullocks	case
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 Bullocks	nummod
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Bullocks	amod
18	Bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 match	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 horns	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horns	nmod:poss
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horns	amod
22	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Bullocks	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hoofs	cc
24	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 horns	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Lion	little hope		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
2	eat	gerund	little hope not said here	Bullocks = bullock		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	past	Lion		for no match; for three strong Bullocks with Bullocks's sharp horns and 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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