The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 34
Then the bee got up and carefully brushed every scrap of dust off his velvet coat and buzzed loudly in the boy’s ear to waken him.
Who acts: bee · What happens: get up, brush, buzz, waken · To what, where: scrap, ear, bee
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bee | det |
| 3 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brushed | cc |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 brushed | advmod |
| 8 | brushed | brush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 scrap | det |
| 10 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brushed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dust | case |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scrap | nmod |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 coat | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 coat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coat | compound |
| 16 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brushed | obl:agent |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 buzzed | cc |
| 18 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 19 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 18 buzzed | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 ear | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ear | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 boy | case |
| 24 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buzzed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 waken | mark |
| 26 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 buzzed | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 waken | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the bee | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | brush | participle | the bee not said here | every scrap of dust | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme | |||
| 3 | buzz | past | the bee not said here | the boy's ear | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | |||
| 4 | waken | to-infinitive | the bee not said here | bee | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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 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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