Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 85
And the queen bee hummed in the air, and sang of the revenge of the flowers, and of the elf of the rose and said that behind the smallest leaf dwells One, who can discover evil deeds, and punish them also.
Who acts: queen bee · What happens: hum, sing, say, dwell, discover, punish · To what, where: queen bee, air, One, smallest leaf, evil deeds, bees · 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 (queen bee), 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 | _ | 11 sang | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bee | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bee | compound |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | hummed | hum | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bee | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hummed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sang | cc |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 revenge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 revenge | det |
| 14 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 flowers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 revenge | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 elf | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 elf | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 elf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 elf | det |
| 22 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 rose | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rose | det |
| 25 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 elf | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sang | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 dwells | mark |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 leaf | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 leaf | det |
| 31 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 leaf | amod |
| 32 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dwells | obl |
| 33 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 34 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 dwells | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 discover | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 discover | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 discover | aux |
| 38 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dwells | conj |
| 39 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 deeds | amod |
| 40 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 discover | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 punish | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 punish | cc |
| 43 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 discover | conj |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 punish | obj |
| 45 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 punish | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hum | participle | the queen bee not said here | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the queen bee | of the revenge of the flowers; of the elf of the rose | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the queen bee not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | dwell | present | One | the smallest leaf | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme one=Location | ||||
| 5 | discover | can | evil deeds | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Topic | |||||
| 6 | punish | infinitive | bees = bee | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 7 | revenge | the flowers | nom revenge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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