Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 26

Then came the queen of the bees, who had been saved by the little dwarf from the fire, and she tried the lips of all three; but at last she sat upon the lips of the one that had eaten the honey: and so the dwarf knew which was the youngest.

Who acts: queen, little dwarf, one, dwarf · What happens: come, save, try, sit, eat, know · To what, where: bees, lips, last, honey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, little dwarf, one, dwarf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bees	det
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 queen	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saved	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 saved	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saved	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 saved	aux:pass
12	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bees	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 dwarf	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dwarf	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dwarf	amod
16	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saved	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dwarf	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tried	nsubj
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lips	det
25	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tried	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 three	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 three	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 lips	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 sat	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sat	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 lips	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lips	det
37	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sat	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 one	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lips	nmod
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 eaten	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 eaten	aux
43	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 one	acl:relcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 honey	det
45	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 eaten	obj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 knew	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 knew	cc
48	so	so	ADV	_	51 knew	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 dwarf	det
50	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 knew	nsubj
51	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 youngest	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 youngest	cop
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 youngest	det
55	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 knew	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the queen of the bees			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past · perfect · passive	the little dwarf from the fire	the bees				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	try	past	queen	the lips of all three				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Eventuality
4	sit	past	queen		last		upon the lips of the one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
5	eat	past · perfect	the one	the honey				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient
6	know	past	the dwarf					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past					young property	tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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