Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 920

Before long the bees came back from gathering honey, and, finding their hives overturned and the Keeper standing by, they made for him with their stings.

Who acts: bees, hives · What happens: come back, gather, find, overturn, stand by, make · To what, where: long, honey, hives

This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, hives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bees	det
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 gathering	mark
8	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	advcl
9	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gathering	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finding	punct
13	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 made	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hives	nmod:poss
15	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 finding	obj
16	overturned	overturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 finding	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Keeper	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Keeper	det
19	Keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hives	conj
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 overturned	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	20 standing	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finding	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 stings	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stings	nmod:poss
29	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 made	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the bees		long		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before long=Location
2	gather	gerund	the bees not said here	honey			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
3	find	gerund	bees = bee not said here	bees's hives and the Keeper			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hive=Attribute clause=Theme
4	overturn	participle	bees's hives and the Keeper not said here				tree rules
5	stand by	gerund	bees's hives and the Keeper not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	bees = bee			for Heifer; with bees's stings	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
7	sting		bees = bee				nom sting «state 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. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:920.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.3.

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