--- title: Going up to the Bull in friendly fashion, he said to him, "I cannot… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: Going up to the Bull in friendly fashion, he said to him, "I cannot help saying how much I admire your magnificent figure. Who acts: Bull, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:1006 # text = Going up to the Bull in friendly fashion, he said to him, "I cannot help saying how much I admire your magnificent figure. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 Going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 2 up up ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 cannot can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 admire admire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | gerund | Bull *not said here* | | | | | to the Bull; in friendly fashion | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fashion=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bull | | Heifer | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | can | Bull | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | Bull *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **admire** *in a quote* | present | Bull | your magnificent figure | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | | 6 | **figure** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: 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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. 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