Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 74

And the bees told it to their queen, who commanded that the next morning they should go and kill the murderer.

Who acts: bees, queen, next morning · What happens: tell, command, go, kill · To what, where: honey, queen, murderer · 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 (bees, queen, next morning), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bees	det
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 queen	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 queen	nmod:poss
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 commanded	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 commanded	nsubj
11	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 queen	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 commanded	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kill	cc
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 murderer	det
22	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kill	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the bees	honey	bees's queen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to queen=Recipient
2	command	past	bees's queen			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	should	the next morning			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	kill	infinitive	the next morning not said here	the murderer		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Theme

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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