Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 72

Though the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep outside the hole.

Who acts: Bull · What happens: dig, rout out, crouch down, go, sleep · To what, where: Mouse

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 (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	Though	though	ADP	_	3 Bull	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bull	det
3	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obl
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 horns	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horns	nmod:poss
10	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walls	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dug	parataxis
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 rout	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rout	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rout	aux
17	rout	rout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tired	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 rout	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mouse	det
20	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rout	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crouching	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crouching	cc
23	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dug	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 crouching	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 went	xcomp
29	outside	outside	ADP	_	31 hole	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hole	det
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sleep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dig	past			though the Bull; into the walls with Bull's horns	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into wall=Patient
2	rout out	could	Bull	the Mouse		tree rules
3	crouch down	gerund			down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep	to-infinitive			outside the hole	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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