Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 37

“Do the white bees choose a queen?” asked the little boy; for he knew that the honey-bees always have one.

Who acts: white bees, little boy, account, honey bees · What happens: do, choose, ask, know, have · To what, where: queen, one · 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 (white bees, little boy, account, honey bees), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bees	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bees	amod
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 choose	nsubj
6	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 knew	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bees	det
21	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bees	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 honey	punct
23	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 have	advmod
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	advcl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
2	choose in a quote	present	the white bees	a queen		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the little boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know	past	account			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	present	the honey bees	one	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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.

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