Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 16
A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds had recently occupied.
Who acts: BULL, shepherds · What happens: escape, hide, have · To what, where: cave
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, shepherds), 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 | 9 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaping | punct |
| 4 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 BULL | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 escaping | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 BULL | punct |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 had | obj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 shepherds | det |
| 15 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cave | acl:relcl |
| 17 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 18 occupied | advmod |
| 18 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | gerund | a BULL not said here | from a Lion | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | a BULL | a cave | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | some shepherds | a cave | occupied property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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