Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 59
The queen-bee wanted to fly out, but then all the other bees must have gone with her.
Who acts: queen bee, other bees · What happens: want, fly out, go
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 (queen bee, other 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bee | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bee | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 fly | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gone | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 all | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 bees | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bees | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bees | amod |
| 15 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gone | aux |
| 18 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wanted | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the queen bee | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the queen bee not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | must · perfect | all other bees | with dust | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary |
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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