The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 3
Just then one of the swarm came home from the clover field with a load of sweets.
Who acts: one · What happens: come · To what, where: clover field
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 (one), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 swarm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swarm | det |
| 6 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 11 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 field | compound |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 load | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 load | det |
| 15 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 field | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sweets | case |
| 17 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 load | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one | the clover field with a load of sweets | of the swarm; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of swarm=Initial_Location from field=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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