Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 56

There were bees standing in all the passages, waving their wings, so that a wholesome draught of air might blow through the great manufactory; that was their business.

Who acts: bees, wholesome draught, that · What happens: be, stand, wave, blow · To what, where: passages, wings, great manufactory, business

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, wholesome draught, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blow	advcl
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bees	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 passages	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 passages	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passages	det
8	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 standing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waving	punct
10	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 standing	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waving	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blow	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	22 blow	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 blow	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 draught	det
17	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 draught	amod
18	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blow	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 air	case
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 draught	nmod
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 blow	aux
22	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 manufactory	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 manufactory	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manufactory	amod
26	manufactory	manufactory	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blow	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 business	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 business	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 business	cop
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 business	nmod:poss
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blow	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	bees		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	gerund	bees not said here		all passages	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location
3	wave	gerund	bees not said here	bees's wings		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	blow	might	a wholesome draught of air		the great manufactory	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	that	bees's business		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: «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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