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title: The Bear lost his temper in an instant, and sprang upon the log toot… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bear lost his temper in an instant, and sprang upon the log tooth and claw, to destroy the nest. 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 5

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The Bear lost his temper in an instant, and sprang upon the log tooth and claw, to destroy the nest.

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**Who acts:** Bear · **What happens:** lose, spring, destroy, temper · **To what, where:** temper, instant, log tooth, nest

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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:pg19994:67:5
# text = The Bear lost his temper in an instant, and sprang upon the log tooth and claw, to destroy the nest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the Bear | Bear's temper |  | a instant |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the Bear *not said here* |  |  | the log tooth and claw |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tooth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | the Bear *not said here* | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |
| 4 | **temper** |  | Bear |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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