Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 15
"Have they a queen bee?" asked the little boy, for he knew that the real bees had a queen.
Who acts: little boy, window, real bees · What happens: have, ask, know · To what, where: queen · 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 (little boy, window, real 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 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bee | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bee | compound |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 they | appos |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bee | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bee | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bees | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bees | amod |
| 20 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 queen | det |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | past | window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the real bees | a queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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