The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 5
The Flies were quickly smeared from head to foot with honey.
What happens: smear · To what, where: Flies, head
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: 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 | 2 Flies | det |
| 2 | Flies | Fly | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 smeared | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smeared | aux:pass |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 smeared | advmod |
| 5 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smeared | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smeared | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 honey | case |
| 11 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foot | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | past · passive | the Flies | head | to foot with honey; quickly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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