The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 133
Bees buzzed over the flowers with a soothing sound, and in a few minutes Nur Mahomed was fast asleep.
Who acts: Bees, Nur · What happens: buzz, be · To what, where: flowers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bees, Nur), 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 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buzzed | nsubj |
| 2 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 flowers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flowers | det |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buzzed | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sound | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 8 | soothing | soothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buzzed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asleep | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asleep | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minutes | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minutes | amod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 asleep | obl |
| 16 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 asleep | nsubj |
| 17 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Nur | flat |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asleep | cop |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 asleep | advmod |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 buzzed | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 buzzed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past | Bees | the flowers | with a soothing sound | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Nur | minute | asleep, fast property | 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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