The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 2
The Bees were just as sure that the treasure was theirs.
Who acts: Bees, treasure · What happens: be · To what, where: 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 (Bees, treasure), 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 Bees | det |
| 2 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 theirs | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 treasure | det |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 theirs | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 theirs | cop |
| 11 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Bees | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the treasure | Wasps = wasp | tree rules |
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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