Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 73

The elf of the rose could not understand how they could rest so quietly in the matter, so he flew to the bees, who were gathering honey, and told them of the wicked brother.

Who acts: elf, roses, bees · What happens: not understand, rest, fly, gather, tell · To what, where: matter, honey, roses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf, roses, 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	2 elf	det
2	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understand	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rose	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rose	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 elf	nmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 understand	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 understand	advmod
8	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 rest	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rest	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 rest	aux
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 understand	ccomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 quietly	advmod
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 rest	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 matter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 matter	det
17	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 flew	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flew	nsubj
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 understand	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bees	det
24	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gathering	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gathering	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gathering	aux
28	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 bees	acl
29	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gathering	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flew	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 brother	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 brother	det
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 brother	amod
37	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 told	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	could	the elf of the rose					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	rest	could	roses = rose			the matter	quietly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in matter=Location
3	fly	past	elf				to the bees result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bee=Result
4	gather	past · progressive	the bees	honey				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	elf not said here		roses = rose		of the wicked brother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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