The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 4

“Fly, dear little bee, towards the east,” said she, “to my beloved Ratibor, and softly hum into his ear that I love him only, but that I am a captive in the gnome’s palace under the mountains.

Who acts: Fly · What happens: say, hum, love, be · To what, where: ear, bee, captive, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fly), 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	_	2 Fly	punct
2	Fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bee	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bee	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bee	amod
6	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fly	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 east	punct
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 east	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 east	det
10	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fly	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Ratibor	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Ratibor	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Ratibor	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 Ratibor	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Ratibor	nmod:poss
19	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Ratibor	amod
20	Ratibor	Ratibor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hum	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hum	cc
23	softly	softly	ADV	_	24 hum	advmod
24	hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 Ratibor	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 ear	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ear	nmod:poss
27	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hum	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 love	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 love	nsubj
30	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hum	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 love	obj
32	only	only	ADV	_	30 love	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 captive	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 captive	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 captive	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 captive	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 captive	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 captive	det
39	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 love	parataxis
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 palace	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 gnome	det
42	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 palace	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 gnome	case
44	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 captive	nmod
45	under	under	ADP	_	47 mountains	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 mountains	det
47	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 palace	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fly and dear little bee and the east				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hum in a quote	infinitive			bee's ear	softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient
3	love in a quote	present	Fly and dear little bee and the east = fly	bee			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	present	Fly and dear little bee and the east = fly	a captive	the gnome's palace under the mountains		tree rules

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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