Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 132

A BULL was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a narrow passage which led to his stall.

Who acts: BULL, narrow passage · What happens: strive, squeeze, lead · To what, where: Calf, narrow passage

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BULL, narrow passage), 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 striving	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 striving	aux
4	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 might	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 might	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 might	nmod:poss
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 striving	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 squeeze	mark
10	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 striving	advcl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 squeeze	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 passage	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 passage	det
14	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 passage	amod
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 squeeze	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 led	nsubj
17	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passage	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 stall	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 stall	nmod:poss
20	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 striving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strive	past · progressive	a BULL				tree rules
2	squeeze	to-infinitive	a BULL not said here	Calf	a narrow passage		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme through passage=Trajectory
3	lead	past	a narrow passage			to Calf's stall	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to stall=Patient

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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