Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 14

"See there are the white bees swarming," said Kay's old grandmother one day when it was snowing.

Who acts: white bees, old grandmother, it · What happens: see, be, swarm, say, snow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. 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, old grandmother, it), 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 See	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bees	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bees	amod
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
8	swarming	swarm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bees	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grandmother	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Kay	case
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandmother	amod
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 day	nummod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 snowing	obl:unmarked
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 snowing	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 snowing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 snowing	aux
21	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	does in a quote	present	the white bees	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swarm in a quote	gerund	the white bees not said here			vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Kay's old grandmother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	snow	past · progressive	it		day	vn weather-57 «It V PP.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: «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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