Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 99

The Bull, on approaching the Lion’s den, saw the huge spits and giant caldrons, and no sign whatever of the sheep, and, without saying a word, quietly took his departure.

Who acts: Bull · What happens: approach, see, say, take, depart · To what, where: den, huge spits, word, departure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. 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	11 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 approaching	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 approaching	case
5	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Bull	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lion	det
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 den	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Lion	case
9	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approaching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bull	punct
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spits	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spits	amod
14	spits	spit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caldrons	cc
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 caldrons	amod
17	caldrons	caldron	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spits	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whatever	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 whatever	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 sign	det
21	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 whatever	nsubj
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saw	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sheep	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sheep	det
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 whatever	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 saying	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 saying	mark
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 saw	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 word	det
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saying	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
34	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	35 took	advmod
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 saying	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 departure	nmod:poss
37	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 took	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	approach	gerund		the Lion's den		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Theme
2	see	past	the Bull	the huge spits and giant caldrons		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund		a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	take	past		Bull's departure	quietly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme
5	depart		Bull			nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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