The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 71
After they had ridden some way, they saw a swarm of bees lying on the ground, so hungry and weak that they were unable to fly.
Who acts: bread, bees · What happens: ride, see, lie, be, fly · To what, where: way, swarm, ground
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread, bees), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 ridden | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | aux |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | advcl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ridden | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 swarm | det |
| 11 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bees | case |
| 13 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swarm | nmod |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 bees | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hungry | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 hungry | advmod |
| 20 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weak | cc |
| 22 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hungry | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 unable | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 unable | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 unable | cop |
| 26 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weak | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 fly | mark |
| 28 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 unable | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | bread | some way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | bread | a swarm of bees | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swarm=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | bees not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | bread | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly | to-infinitive | bread not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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