The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 1

A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them.

Who acts: Wasps, store · What happens: find, declare, belong · To what, where: store, hollow tree, Wasps

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wasps, store), 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 store	det
2	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 honey	case
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 store	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Wasps	det
15	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 declared	nsubj
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
17	positively	positively	ADV	_	16 declared	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 belonged	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 belonged	nsubj
20	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 belonged	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect · passive		a store of honey		a hollow tree		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	declare speech: other	past	the Wasps				positively property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	belong	past	store		Wasps = wasp			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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