The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 1

Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.

Who acts: Two Men, huge Bear · What happens: travel, crash out · To what, where: company, brush

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Men	nummod
2	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 traveling	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traveling	aux
4	traveling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 company	case
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traveling	obl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traveling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 when	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 traveling	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crashed	punct
13	all	all	ADV	_	20 crashed	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 all	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crashed	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Bear	det
18	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Bear	amod
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crashed	nsubj
20	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traveling	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 brush	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 brush	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brush	det
24	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crashed	obl
25	near	near	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brush	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 traveling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · progressive	Two Men			company		through a forest	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Trajectory
2	crash out	past	a huge Bear	the brush near Men				all property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient

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: «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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