Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 47
Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him as if he were an enemy.
Who acts: Bull, Lion · What happens: gore, be · To what, where: Lion, enemy
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, Lion), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 gored | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bull | det |
| 4 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gored | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horns | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horns | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Bull | nmod |
| 8 | gored | gore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gored | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 enemy | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 enemy | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 enemy | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 enemy | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 enemy | det |
| 15 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gored | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gore | past | the Bull with Bull's horns | Lion | afterwards property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Lion | a enemy | 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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