The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 53
'But I don't see any bees,' answered the queen, looking round.
Who acts: I · What happens: not see, answer, look round · To what, where: bees, queen
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 bees | det |
| 8 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | advcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · do-support | I | any bees | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look round | gerund | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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