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title: Guessing what the Bear was after, the Bee flew at him, stung him sha… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Guessing what the Bear was after, the Bee flew at him, stung him sharply and then disappeared into the hollow log. Who acts: Bee, 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 4

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Guessing what the Bear was after, the Bee flew at him, stung him sharply and then disappeared into the hollow log.

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**Who acts:** Bee, Bear · **What happens:** guess, be, fly, sting, disappear · **To what, where:** Bear, hollow log

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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 (Bee, 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:pg19994:67:4
# text = Guessing what the Bear was after, the Bee flew at him, stung him sharply and then disappeared into the hollow log.
1	Guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stung	sting	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | gerund | the Bee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Bear |  |  |  |  | after *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the Bee |  |  |  |  | at Bear | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at he=Location |
| 4 | **sting** | past | the Bee *not said here* | Bear |  |  |  | sharply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **disappear** | past | the Bee *not said here* |  |  | the hollow log | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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