The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 5

It must have been true, for the Bear snuffed at the Man's head awhile, and then, seeming to be satisfied that he was dead, walked away.

Who acts: body, Bear · What happens: be, snuff, seem, walk away · To what, where: head

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 (body, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 true	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 true	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 snuffed	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 snuffed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bear	det
9	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snuffed	nsubj
10	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Man	det
13	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Man	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snuffed	obl
16	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	10 snuffed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeming	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seeming	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 seeming	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeming	punct
21	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 snuffed	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 satisfied	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 satisfied	cop
24	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seeming	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 dead	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dead	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 satisfied	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 walked	punct
30	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 snuffed	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 walked	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect	body			true property	tree rules
2	snuff	past	the Bear	the Man's head		awhile property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	gerund	the Bear not said here		then		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	the Bear not said here			satisfied property	tree rules
5	is	past	Bear			dead property	tree rules
6	walk away	past	the Bear not said here			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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