The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 7

The poor Bear had to take to his heels, and he was able to save himself only by diving into a pool of water.

Who acts: poor Bear, Bear · What happens: have, take, be, save, dive · To what, where: Bear, pool

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 (poor Bear, 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	3 Bear	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bear	amod
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 heels	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heels	nmod:poss
9	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 able	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 able	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 able	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 able	cop
14	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 save	mark
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 able	xcomp
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 save	obj
18	only	only	ADV	_	16 save	advmod
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 diving	mark
20	diving	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 save	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 pool	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pool	det
23	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 diving	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pool	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor Bear				tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	the poor Bear not said here			to Bear's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
3	is	past	Bear			able property	tree rules
4	save	to-infinitive	Bear not said here	Bear			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	dive	gerund	Bear not said here		a pool of water		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Location

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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