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title: A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps decl… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them. Who acts: Wasps, store. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 1

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A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them.

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**Who acts:** Wasps, store · **What happens:** find, declare, belong · **To what, where:** store, hollow tree, Wasps

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wasps, store), 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:pg19994:129:1
# text = A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | a store of honey |  | a hollow tree |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Wasps |  |  |  |  | positively *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **belong** | past | store |  | Wasps *= wasp* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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