Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 66
Icy winter comes again, and the "white bees" are swarming, and sting the traveller's face till they melt.
Who acts: Icy winter, white bees, bees · What happens: come, swarm, sting, melt · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Icy winter, white bees, 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 | Icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 winter | amod |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swarming | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swarming | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bees | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bees | punct |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bees | amod |
| 10 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 swarming | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bees | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 swarming | aux |
| 13 | swarming | swarm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sting | cc |
| 16 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 swarming | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 traveller | det |
| 18 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 traveller | case |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sting | obj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 melt | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 melt | nsubj |
| 23 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sting | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Icy winter | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swarm | present · progressive | the white bees | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | sting | infinitive | the white bees not said here | the traveller's face | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus face=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | melt | present | bees = bee | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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