The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 6

So the bee spread his shining wings and flew away to do as he was bidden; but before he was out of sight a greedy swallow made a snatch at him, and to the great grief of the princess her messenger was eaten up then and there.

Who acts: bee, greedy swallow · What happens: spread, shine, fly away, do, bid, be · To what, where: shining wings, bee, sight, snatch, messenger

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 (bee, greedy swallow), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 spread	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bee	det
3	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
6	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 wings	amod
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 flew	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 flew	xcomp
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 bidden	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bidden	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bidden	aux:pass
16	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 do	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 sight	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sight	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sight	cop
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 sight	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 sight	case
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 swallow	det
26	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swallow	amod
27	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 snatch	det
30	snatch	snatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 eaten	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 eaten	cc
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 grief	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grief	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grief	amod
38	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eaten	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 princess	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 princess	det
41	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grief	nmod
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 messenger	nmod:poss
43	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eaten	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 eaten	aux:pass
45	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 made	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 eaten	compound:prt
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 eaten	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 there	cc
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 then	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the bee	bee's shining wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly away	past	the bee not said here				away property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the bee not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bid	past · passive		bee				tree rules
6	is	past	bee		sight			tree rules
7	make	past	a greedy swallow	a snatch			at bee	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snatch=Product
8	eat up	past · passive		princess's messenger		then	to the great grief of the princess	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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