The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 36

“Look! there are some dead bees in it!

Who acts: you, dead bees · What happens: look, be

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dead 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 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	parataxis
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bees	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bees	amod
8	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bees	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	does in a quote	present	some dead bees in disgust			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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