The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 91

Just as she had finished speaking the six thousand frogs returned, looking so strange with bees sticking to every part of them that, sad as she felt, the poor queen could not help laughing.

Who acts: Fairy, bees, poor queen · What happens: finish, speak, return, look, stick, feel · To what, where: thousand frogs · 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 (Fairy, bees, poor queen), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 finished	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 finished	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 finished	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frogs	det
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thousand	nummod
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 frogs	nummod
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speaking	obj
11	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speaking	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 speaking	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 strange	advmod
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looking	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 bees	case
17	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looking	obl
18	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 bees	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 part	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 part	det
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sticking	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 part	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 them	nmod:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sad	punct
26	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bees	parataxis
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 felt	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 felt	nsubj
29	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sad	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 help	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 queen	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 queen	amod
33	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 help	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 help	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 help	advmod
36	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 felt	ccomp
37	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 help	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Fairy			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	Fairy not said here	the thousand frogs		tree rules
3	return	past	Fairy not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	gerund	Fairy not said here		with bees; strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	stick	gerund	bees not said here		to every part of bees	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to part=Co-Patient
6	feel	past	Fairy			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not help	could	the poor queen			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	laugh not said to happen	gerund	the poor queen not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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