The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 92

The bees were all so stupefied with what they had eaten that it was possible to draw their stings without hunting them.

Who acts: bees, part · What happens: stupefy, eat, be, draw, hunt, sting · To what, where: bees, stings

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 (bees, part), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stupefied	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stupefied	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 stupefied	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 stupefied	advmod
6	stupefied	stupefy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stupefied	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eaten	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eaten	aux
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 possible	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 possible	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 possible	cop
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eaten	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 draw	mark
17	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 eaten	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stings	nmod:poss
19	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 draw	obj
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 hunting	mark
21	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 draw	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hunting	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stupefied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stupefy	past · passive		the bees	all property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	eat	past · perfect	bees = bee			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	part		possible property	tree rules
4	draw	to-infinitive	bees = bee not said here	bees's stings		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Theme
5	hunt	gerund	bees = bee not said here	bees = bee		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	sting		bees = bee			nom sting «state transitive»: poss=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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