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title: Wise Judge Hornet quickly understood why they did so: They knew they… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Wise Judge Hornet quickly understood why they did so: They knew they could not build a honey comb and fill it with honey. Who acts: Wise Hornet, Hornet. 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 15

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Wise Judge Hornet quickly understood why they did so: They knew they could not build a honey comb and fill it with honey.

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**Who acts:** Wise Hornet, Hornet · **What happens:** understand, do, know, not build, fill · **To what, where:** honey comb, comb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wise Hornet, Hornet), 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:pg19994:129:15
# text = Wise Judge Hornet quickly understood why they did so: They knew they could not build a honey comb and fill it with honey.
1	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Judge	Judge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Hornet	Hornet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | Wise Hornet  Judge |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | past | Hornet |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | past | Hornet |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **build** | could | Hornet | a honey comb |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comb=Product |
| 5 | **fill** | infinitive | Hornet *not said here* | comb |  |  |  | with honey | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with honey=Instrument |

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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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