The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 4

Guessing what the Bear was after, the Bee flew at him, stung him sharply and then disappeared into the hollow log.

Who acts: Bee, Bear · What happens: guess, be, fly, sting, disappear · To what, where: Bear, hollow log

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 (Bee, 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	Guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 flew	advcl
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Guessing	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bear	det
4	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 after	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 after	cop
6	after	after	ADV	_	2 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Guessing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bee	det
9	Bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stung	punct
14	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flew	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stung	obj
16	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	14 stung	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 disappeared	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 disappeared	advmod
19	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stung	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 log	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 log	det
22	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 log	amod
23	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 disappeared	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	gerund	the Bee not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	is	past	the Bear				after property	tree rules
3	fly	past	the Bee				at Bear	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at he=Location
4	sting	past	the Bee not said here	Bear			sharply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	disappear	past	the Bee not said here		the hollow log	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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