The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 56
‘Have they also a queen bee?’ asked the little boy, for he knew that the real bees have one.
Who acts: bees, boy, real bees · What happens: have, ask, know · To what, where: little boy, one
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 (bees, boy, real 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 bee | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bee | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bee | compound |
| 7 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 they | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 bee | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bee | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 knew | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bees | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bees | amod |
| 21 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 knew | advcl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | bees = bee | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the real bees | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 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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