Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 9
Next they came to a bees’-nest in a hollow tree, and there was so much honey that it ran down the trunk; and the two brothers wanted to light a fire under the tree and kill the bees, so as to get their honey.
Who acts: things, much honey, honey, two brothers · What happens: come, be, run down, want, light, kill · To what, where: hollow tree, trunk, fire, tree, bees, honey
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 (things, much honey, honey, two brothers), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 nest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bees | det |
| 6 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 bees | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 nest | punct |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 honey | amod |
| 20 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 ran | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 honey | acl:relcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 ran | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trunk | det |
| 26 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 wanted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wanted | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 brothers | det |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 brothers | nummod |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 wanted | nsubj |
| 32 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 light | mark |
| 34 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wanted | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 fire | det |
| 36 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 light | obj |
| 37 | under | under | ADP | _ | 39 tree | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tree | det |
| 39 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 light | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 kill | cc |
| 41 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 light | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 bees | det |
| 43 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 kill | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 get | punct |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 get | advmod |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 get | mark |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 get | mark |
| 48 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wanted | conj |
| 49 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 honey | nmod:poss |
| 50 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 get | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | things = thing | a hollow tree | to a bees's nest; next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | much honey | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | honey | the trunk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | past | the two brothers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | light not said to happen | to-infinitive | the two brothers not said here | a fire | the tree | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 6 | kill | infinitive | the two brothers not said here | the bees | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | the two brothers not said here | things's honey | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honey=Stimulus |
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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