Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 43
Here the bees are mightily busy in the summer-time, and hover round their queen with their humming song.
Who acts: bees · What happens: be, sing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 busy | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bees | det |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 summer | punct |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hover | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hover | cc |
| 14 | hover | hover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 queen | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 queen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hover | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 song | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 song | nmod:poss |
| 20 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 song | compound |
| 21 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 queen | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bees | here | time | hover round bees's queen with bees's humming song obl; busy, mightily property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | sing | bees = bee | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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