Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 36

“It is the white bees that are swarming,” said Kay's old grandmother.

Who acts: storm, white bees, old grandmother · What happens: be, swarm, say · To what, where: white bees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, white bees, old grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bees	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bees	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bees	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bees	amod
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 swarming	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swarming	aux
9	swarming	swarm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bees	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swarming	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 swarming	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 grandmother	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Kay	case
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grandmother	amod
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	storm	the white bees	tree rules
2	swarm in a quote	present · progressive	the white bees		vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Kay's old grandmother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/36/