Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 80
A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns.
Who acts: BULL · What happens: find, gore · To what, where: cub, Dog
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 BULL | det |
| 2 | BULL | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gored | nsubj |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 BULL | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cub | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 lion | case |
| 7 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finding | obj |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 finding | xcomp |
| 9 | gored | gore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gored | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gored | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horns | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horns | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gored | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | a BULL not said here | a lion's cub | asleep property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Topic | |||
| 2 | gore | past | a BULL | Dog | to death; with Dog's horns | tree rules |
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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