The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 1
A Bear roaming the woods in search of berries happened on a fallen tree in which a swarm of Bees had stored their honey.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: roam, happen, fall, store, search · To what, where: woods, search, fallen tree, swarm, berries
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | roaming | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Bear | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woods | det |
| 5 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roaming | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 search | case |
| 7 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roaming | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 berries | case |
| 9 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 search | nmod |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happened | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stored | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 swarm | det |
| 18 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Bees | case |
| 20 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 swarm | nmod |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stored | aux |
| 22 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tree | acl:relcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 honey | nmod:poss |
| 24 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stored | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | gerund | a Bear not said here | the woods | search of berries | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | happen | past | a Bear | a fallen tree | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | store | past · perfect · passive | a swarm of Bees | a fallen tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | search | berries | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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