The Aesop for Children, Three Bullocks and a Lion, sentence 5

Then one day the Bullocks had a quarrel, and when the hungry Lion came to look at them and lick his chops as he was accustomed to do, he found them in separate corners of the field, as far away from one another as they could get.

Who acts: Bullocks, hungry Lion, Lion · What happens: have, come, look, lick, accustom, do · To what, where: quarrel, chops, Lion, Bullocks, separate corners

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 (Bullocks, hungry Lion, Lion), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bullocks	det
5	Bullocks	Bullock	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 quarrel	det
8	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lion	det
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Lion	amod
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lick	cc
21	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 look	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chops	nmod:poss
23	chops	chop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lick	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 accustomed	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 accustomed	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 accustomed	aux:pass
27	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lick	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 accustomed	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 corners	case
35	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 corners	amod
36	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 found	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 field	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 field	det
39	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 corners	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 away	punct
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 far	advmod
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 away	advmod
43	away	away	ADV	_	32 found	advmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 one	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 away	obl
46	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	45 one	fixed
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 get	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 get	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 get	aux
50	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 away	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Bullocks	a quarrel		then; day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient
2	come	past	the hungry Lion					tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	the hungry Lion not said here				at Bullocks = bullock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
4	lick	infinitive	the hungry Lion not said here	Lion's chops				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chop=Source
5	accustom	past · passive		Lion				tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	find	past	Lion	Bullocks = bullock	separate corners of the field		away property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
8	get	could	Bullocks = bullock					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	chop		Lion					nom chop «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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