The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 2

The Bear began to nose around the log very carefully to find out if the Bees were at home.

Who acts: Bear, Bees · What happens: begin, find out, be · To what, where: nose, log, home

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bear	det
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 nose	mark
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 log	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 log	det
8	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nose	nmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 carefully	advmod
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 find	compound:prt
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 home	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bees	det
16	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 home	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 home	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Bear	nose	the log	carefully property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Eventuality
2	find out	to-infinitive	the Bear not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Bees		home		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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