Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 74
The Bull rising up, and not knowing what to do, was sadly perplexed.
Who acts: Bull · What happens: rise up, not know, do, perplex · 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 (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 | 15 perplexed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Bull | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rising | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knowing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knowing | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 knowing | advmod |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rising | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knowing | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bull | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 perplexed | aux:pass |
| 14 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 15 perplexed | advmod |
| 15 | perplexed | perplex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 perplexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | gerund | the Bull not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | the Bull not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the Bull not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | perplex | past · passive | the Bull | sadly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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