The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 2
The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around.
Who acts: sweet smell, Flies, honey · What happens: bring, buzz around, smell · To what, where: large number
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 (sweet smell, Flies, honey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smell | amod |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 honey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honey | det |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smell | nmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 brought | advmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 number | amod |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Flies | case |
| 13 | Flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Flies | acl |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 14 buzzing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the sweet smell of the honey | a large number of Flies | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 2 | buzz around | gerund | Flies not said here | around property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | smell | the honey | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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