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title: I move that the Bees and the Wasps be both instructed to build a hon… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: I move that the Bees and the Wasps be both instructed to build a honey comb. Who acts: I. 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 12

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I move that the Bees and the Wasps be both instructed to build a honey comb.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** move, instruct, build · **To what, where:** Bees, honey comb

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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 (I), 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:pg19994:129:12
# text = I move that the Bees and the Wasps be both instructed to build a honey comb.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | infinitive · passive |  | the Bees and the Wasps |  |  |  | both *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | a honey comb |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comb=Product |

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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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