The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 3

As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the Bull had to submit to the insult.

Who acts: Lion, Bull · What happens: prowl, have, submit · To what, where: entrance

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 (Lion, Bull), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 prowling	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prowling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prowling	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 prowling	advmod
6	prowling	prowl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 had	advcl
7	outside	outside	ADP	_	9 entrance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entrance	det
9	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prowling	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entrance	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prowling	punct
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	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 submit	mark
18	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 insult	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 insult	det
21	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 submit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	prowl	past · progressive	the Lion	the entrance to the cave	still		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside entrance=Trajectory
2	have	past	the Bull				tree rules
3	submit	to-infinitive	the Bull not said here			to the insult	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to insult=Theme

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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