The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 1
A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table.
Who acts: jar · What happens: be, flow out · To what, where: sticky sweetness, table
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jar | det |
| 2 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 upset | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 honey | case |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jar | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 upset | cop |
| 6 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sweetness | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sweetness | det |
| 9 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sweetness | amod |
| 10 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 upset | conj |
| 11 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sweetness | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 flowed | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flowed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 upset | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a jar of honey | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow out | participle | the sticky sweetness not said here | the table | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location |
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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