The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 5

The Bear lost his temper in an instant, and sprang upon the log tooth and claw, to destroy the nest.

Who acts: Bear · What happens: lose, spring, destroy, temper · To what, where: temper, instant, log tooth, nest

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bear	det
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 temper	nmod:poss
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 instant	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 instant	det
8	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sprang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sprang	cc
11	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 tooth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tooth	det
14	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tooth	compound
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sprang	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 claw	cc
17	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tooth	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 destroy	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 destroy	mark
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sprang	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nest	det
22	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 destroy	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	past	the Bear	Bear's temper	a instant	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	spring	past	the Bear not said here		the log tooth and claw	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tooth=Trajectory
3	destroy	to-infinitive	the Bear not said here	the nest		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
4	temper		Bear			nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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