Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 18
The Bull quietly addressed him: “Butt away as much as you will.
Who acts: Bull · What happens: address, butt away · To what, where: head, much
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bull | det |
| 2 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | nsubj |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 addressed | advmod |
| 4 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 addressed | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Butt | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Butt | punct |
| 8 | Butt | butt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 addressed | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 Butt | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Butt | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 will | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 will | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | the Bull | head | quietly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 2 | butt away in a quote | infinitive | the Bull not said here | much | away property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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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