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title: A Bear roaming the woods in search of berries happened on a fallen t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Bear roaming the woods in search of berries happened on a fallen tree in which a swarm of Bees had stored their honey. Who acts: Bear. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 1

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A Bear roaming the woods in search of berries happened on a fallen tree in which a swarm of Bees had stored their honey.

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**Who acts:** Bear · **What happens:** roam, happen, fall, store, search · **To what, where:** woods, search, fallen tree, swarm, berries

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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:pg19994:67:1
# text = A Bear roaming the woods in search of berries happened on a fallen tree in which a swarm of Bees had stored their honey.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | gerund | a Bear *not said here* | the woods |  | search of berries |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **happen** | past | a Bear |  |  | a fallen tree |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **store** | past · perfect · passive |  | a swarm of Bees |  | a fallen tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | berries |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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