The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 2
It happened that one of the Goats had been left behind, and the Bull had no sooner got inside than this Goat lowered his head and made a rush at him, butting him with his horns.
Who acts: It, Bull, Goat · What happens: happen, leave behind, have, get, lower, make · To what, where: one Goats, head, rush, Bull
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 (It, Bull, Goat), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 left | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Goats | nummod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Goats | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Goats | det |
| 7 | Goats | Goat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happened | advcl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bull | det |
| 15 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 sooner | det |
| 18 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 got | advmod |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | advcl |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 lowered | mark |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 Goat | det |
| 23 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lowered | nsubj |
| 24 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lowered | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lowered | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 rush | det |
| 30 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 butting | punct |
| 34 | butting | butt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 made | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 butting | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 horns | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 horns | nmod:poss |
| 38 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 butting | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave behind | past · perfect · passive | the one Goats | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Bull | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | past | the Bull not said here | inside, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | lower | past | this Goat | Bull's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past | this Goat not said here | a rush | at Bull | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product | |||
| 7 | butt | gerund | this Goat not said here | Bull | with Bull's horns | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with horn=Instrument |
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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