The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 4
So they brought the case before the Hornet, justice of the peace in that part of the woods.
Who acts: Bees · What happens: bring · To what, where: case, part
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 case | det |
| 5 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Hornet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hornet | det |
| 8 | Hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 justice | punct |
| 10 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hornet | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 peace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peace | det |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 justice | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 woods | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woods | det |
| 19 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Bees = bee | the case | that part of the woods | before the Hornet and justice of the peace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme before hornet=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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