The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 12

I move that the Bees and the Wasps be both instructed to build a honey comb.

Who acts: I · What happens: move, instruct, build · To what, where: Bees, honey comb

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 instructed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bees	det
5	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 instructed	nsubj:pass
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Wasps	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wasps	det
8	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Bees	conj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 instructed	aux:pass
10	both	both	ADV	_	11 instructed	advmod
11	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 move	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 build	mark
13	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 instructed	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 comb	det
15	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comb	compound
16	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	present	I			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	instruct speech: other	infinitive · passive		the Bees and the Wasps	both property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	build	to-infinitive		a honey comb		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comb=Product

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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