Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 70
A BULL was bitten by a Mouse and, angered by the wound, tried to capture him.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: bite, anger, try, capture · To what, where: BULL
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse), 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 | 4 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitten | aux:pass |
| 4 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Mouse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bitten | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 angered | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 angered | punct |
| 10 | angered | anger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bitten | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 wound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wound | det |
| 13 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 angered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitten | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 capture | mark |
| 17 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 capture | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past · passive | a Mouse | a BULL | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | anger | participle | a Mouse not said here | by the wound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | try | past | a Mouse not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | capture not said to happen | to-infinitive | a Mouse not said here | Bull | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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