The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 15
Wise Judge Hornet quickly understood why they did so: They knew they could not build a honey comb and fill it with honey.
Who acts: Wise Hornet, Hornet · What happens: understand, do, know, not build, fill · To what, where: honey comb, comb · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wise Hornet, Hornet), 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 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hornet | amod |
| 2 | Judge | Judge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hornet | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Hornet | Hornet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 understood | advmod |
| 5 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 did | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understood | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understood | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 build | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 build | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 build | advmod |
| 16 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 comb | det |
| 18 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comb | compound |
| 19 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 build | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fill | cc |
| 21 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 build | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fill | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 honey | case |
| 24 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fill | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | Wise Hornet Judge | quickly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Hornet | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Hornet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not build | could | Hornet | a honey comb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comb=Product | ||||
| 5 | fill | infinitive | Hornet not said here | comb | with honey | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with honey=Instrument |
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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