The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 28
And the old knight buzzed and hummed, but he remained a man and not a bee.
Who acts: old knight, Knight · What happens: buzz, hum, remain · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old knight, Knight), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 buzzed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buzzed | nsubj |
| 5 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hummed | cc |
| 7 | hummed | hum | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 buzzed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remained | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 remained | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remained | nsubj |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buzzed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bee | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 bee | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bee | det |
| 17 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buzzed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | participle | the old knight | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hum | participle | the old knight not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | Knight | a man and a bee | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |
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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