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title: A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table. Who acts: jar. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 1

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A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table.

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**Who acts:** jar · **What happens:** be, flow out · **To what, where:** sticky sweetness, table

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:122:1
# text = A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a jar of honey |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow out** | participle |  | the sticky sweetness *not said here* |  | the table |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location |

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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.

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**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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