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title: A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns. Who acts: BULL. 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 80

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A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns.

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**Who acts:** BULL · **What happens:** find, gore · **To what, where:** cub, Dog

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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), 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:pg21:10:80
# text = A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BULL	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
9	gored	gore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | a BULL *not said here* | a lion's cub |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Topic |
| 2 | **gore** | past | a BULL | Dog |  |  |  | to death; with Dog's horns | 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:** «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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