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title: A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds had… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds had recently occupied. Who acts: BULL, shepherds. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 16

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A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds had recently occupied.

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**Who acts:** BULL, shepherds · **What happens:** escape, hide, have · **To what, where:** cave

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BULL, shepherds), 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:pg21:10:16
# text = A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds had recently occupied.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BULL	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | gerund | a BULL *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from a Lion | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hide** | past | a BULL |  |  | a cave |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | some shepherds | a cave |  |  |  | occupied *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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:** «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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