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title: The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies bu… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around. Who acts: sweet smell, Flies, honey. 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 2

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The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around.

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**Who acts:** sweet smell, Flies, honey · **What happens:** bring, buzz around, smell · **To what, where:** large number

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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 (sweet smell, Flies, honey), 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:pg19994:122:2
# text = The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the sweet smell of the honey | a large number of Flies |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **buzz around** | gerund | Flies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smell** |  | the honey |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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