Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 57

Then there came in bees from without, who had been born with little baskets on their feet; they brought flower-dust, which was poured out, sorted, and manufactured into honey and wax.

Who acts: bees · What happens: come, bear, bring, pour out, sort, manufacture · To what, where: flower dust, honey

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bees	case
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 born	mark
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 born	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 born	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 born	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 baskets	case
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 baskets	amod
15	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 born	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 baskets	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
22	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dust	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 flower	punct
24	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 poured	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 poured	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 poured	aux:pass
28	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 dust	acl:relcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 poured	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sorted	punct
31	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 manufactured	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 manufactured	cc
34	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sorted	parataxis
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 honey	case
36	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 manufactured	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wax	cc
38	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 honey	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			there	then	in bees	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bee=Location
2	bear	past · perfect · passive					with little baskets on bees's feet	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	bring	past	bees = bee	flower dust				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dust=Theme
4	pour out	past · passive		flower dust				vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	sort	past	bees = bee not said here					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	manufacture	participle			honey and wax			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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