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title: A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goather… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night. Who acts: Bull, Goatherds. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 1

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A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night.

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**Who acts:** Bull, Goatherds · **What happens:** escape, enter, use · **To what, where:** cave

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, Goatherds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:98:1
# text = A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Goatherds	goatherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | a Bull |  |  |  |  | from a Lion; once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund | a Bull *not said here* | a cave |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination |
| 3 | **use** | past | the Goatherds | a cave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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