Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 11
Then the humble-bee turned his wing and shook them off.
Who acts: humble bee · What happens: turn, shake off · To what, where: wing, friends
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humble 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bee | det |
| 3 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bee | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 humble | punct |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shook | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 shook | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the humble bee | bee's wing | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake off | past | the humble bee not said here | friends = friend | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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