The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 33

“Well, now I am going to sleep,” observed the bee when the last crumb was gone, “but as you are not very big I can make room for you beside me,” and he curled up his wings, and tucked in his legs, and he and the prince both slept soundly till morning.

Who acts: boy, last crumb, you, bee · What happens: go, sleep, observe, be, not be, make · To what, where: bee, room, wings, legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, last crumb, you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 going	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 going	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 observed	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
12	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bee	det
14	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observed	obj
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 gone	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crumb	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crumb	amod
18	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 observed	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 big	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 big	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 big	cc
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 big	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 big	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 big	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 big	advmod
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 big	advmod
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gone	conj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 big	ccomp
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 make	obl
36	beside	beside	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 make	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 big	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 big	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 curled	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 curled	nsubj
42	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 big	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 curled	compound:prt
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wings	nmod:poss
45	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 curled	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 tucked	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 tucked	cc
48	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 curled	conj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 legs	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 legs	nmod:poss
51	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 tucked	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 slept	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 slept	cc
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 slept	nsubj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 prince	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 prince	det
57	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 he	conj
58	both	both	ADV	_	59 slept	advmod
59	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 tucked	conj
60	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	59 slept	advmod
61	till	till	ADP	_	62 morning	case
62	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 slept	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the boy = boy			now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	observe	past		the bee				tree rules
4	is	past	the last crumb				gone property	tree rules
5	not is in a quote	present	you				big property	tree rules
6	make in a quote	can	the boy = boy	room			for you; beside the boy = boy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for you=Beneficiary
7	curl up	past	bee	bee's wings				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
8	tuck	participle	bee not said here		bee's legs			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in leg=Trajectory
9	sleep	past	bee			morning	both, soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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