The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 55
‘Those are the white bees swarming,’ said the old grandmother.
Who acts: Those, white bees · What happens: be, swarm, say · To what, where: white bees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, white 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 bees | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bees | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bees | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bees | amod |
| 6 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 7 | swarming | swarm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bees | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swarming | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 swarming | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grandmother | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grandmother | amod |
| 13 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Those | the white bees | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swarm | gerund | the white bees not said here | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the white bees | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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