The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 86
A little while after the fox heard the buzzing of an early bee, whom a gleam of sun had tempted out.
Who acts: little while · What happens: hear, tempt out · To what, where: buzzing, gleam
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (little while), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 fox | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 while | nmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 buzzing | det |
| 9 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bee | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bee | det |
| 12 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bee | amod |
| 13 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buzzing | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tempted | punct |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 tempted | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gleam | det |
| 17 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tempted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sun | case |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gleam | nmod |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tempted | aux |
| 21 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bee | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tempted | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a little while after the fox | the buzzing of a early bee | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer buzzing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tempt out | past · perfect · passive | a gleam of sun | a early bee obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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