The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 1
A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night.
Who acts: Bull, Goatherds · What happens: escape, enter, use · To what, where: cave
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, Goatherds), 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 Bull | det |
| 2 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 escaped | advmod |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obl |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 entering | mark |
| 9 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 escaped | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entering | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 used | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Goatherds | det |
| 14 | Goatherds | goatherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cave | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 house | mark |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 house | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 weather | case |
| 21 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weather | amod |
| 22 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flocks | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 night | cc |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weather | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | a Bull | from a Lion; once property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | a Bull not said here | a cave | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination | ||||
| 3 | use | past | the Goatherds | a cave | 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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