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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 81

'Alas,' sighed the queen, 'I have been commanded by the Lion Fairy to make her a pasty out of the stings of bees, and, as far as I can discover, there are none here; as how should there be, seeing there are no flowers for them to feed on?

Who acts: Alas, Lion Fairy, I, none, flowers · What happens: sigh, command, make, discover, be, feed on · To what, where: queen, I, pasty, stings, bees · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alas, Lion Fairy, I, none), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjauxaux:passconjcasedetcompoundoblmarkadvclobjdetobjcasecasedetoblcasenmodpunctccpunctadvmodadvmodmarknsubjauxadvclpunctexplconjnsubjadvmodpunctmarkadvmodauxadvmodcoppunctadvclexplccompdetnsubjmarknsubjmarkacloblpunctroot'PUNCTAlasNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTsighedVERBtheDETqueenNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTIPRONhaveAUXbeenAUXcommandedVERBbyADPtheDETLionPROPNFairyNOUNtoPARTmakeVERBherPRONaDETpastyNOUNoutADPofADPtheDETstingsNOUNofADPbeesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTasADVfarADVasSCONJIPRONcanAUXdiscoverVERB,PUNCTtherePRONareVERBnonePRONhereADV;PUNCTasSCONJhowADVshouldAUXthereADVbeAUX,PUNCTseeingVERBtherePRONareVERBnoDETflowersNOUNforSCONJthemPRONtoPARTfeedVERBonADP?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1''PUNCT_2 Alaspunct
2AlasalaNOUNNumber=Plur5 sighednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Alaspunct
4''PUNCT_2 Alaspunct
5sighedsighVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 queendet
7queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing5 sighedobj
8,,PUNCT_13 commandedpunct
9''PUNCT_13 commandedpunct
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 commandednsubj
11havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 commandedaux
12beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part13 commandedaux:pass
13commandedcommandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 sighedconj
14bybyADP_17 Fairycase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Fairydet
16LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing17 Fairycompound
17FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing13 commandedobl
18totoPART_19 makemark
19makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf13 commandedadvcl
20hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 makeobj
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 pastydet
22pastypastyNOUNNumber=Sing19 makeobj
23outoutADP_26 stingscase
24ofofADP_26 stingscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 stingsdet
26stingsstingNOUNNumber=Plur19 makeobl
27ofofADP_28 beescase
28beesbeeNOUNNumber=Plur26 stingsnmod
29,,PUNCT_40 arepunct
30andandCCONJ_40 arecc
31,,PUNCT_30 andpunct
32asasADV_33 faradvmod
33farfarADVDegree=Pos40 areadvmod
34asasSCONJ_37 discovermark
35IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs37 discovernsubj
36cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin37 discoveraux
37discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf33 faradvcl
38,,PUNCT_33 farpunct
39theretherePRONPronType=Dem40 areexpl
40arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 sighedconj
41nonenonePRONPronType=Neg40 arensubj
42herehereADVPronType=Dem40 areadvmod
43;;PUNCT_50 seeingpunct
44asasSCONJ_50 seeingmark
45howhowADVPronType=Int47 thereadvmod
46shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin47 thereaux
47therethereADVPronType=Dem50 seeingadvmod
48bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf50 seeingcop
49,,PUNCT_50 seeingpunct
50seeingseeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 sighedadvcl
51theretherePRONPronType=Dem52 areexpl
52arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin50 seeingccomp
53nonoDETPronType=Neg54 flowersdet
54flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur52 arensubj
55forforSCONJ_58 feedmark
56themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs58 feednsubj
57totoPART_58 feedmark
58feedfeedVERBVerbForm=Inf54 flowersacl
59ononADP_58 feedobl
60??PUNCT_5 sighedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sighpastAlasthe queenvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic
2commandpresent · perfect · passivethe Lion FairyIvn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3maketo-infinitivethe Lion Fairy not said herea pastyqueenthe stings of beesvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary pasty=Product
4discovercanIvn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
5bepresentnonehere; therefar propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6isinfinitiveAlas not said heretheresee propertytree rules
7doespresentno flowerstherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8feed onto-infinitiveflowers = flowervn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
9stingbeesnom sting «state 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: «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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