The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 47
Ferko again proceeded on his journey, but he hadn’t gone far before a queen bee flew against him, trailing one wing behind her, which had been cruelly torn in two by a big bird.
Who acts: Ferko, queen bee, big bird · What happens: proceed, not go, fly, trail, tear, journey · To what, where: journey, one wing, two
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, queen bee, big bird), 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 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 proceeded | advmod |
| 3 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proceeded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gone | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 gone | advmod |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 proceeded | conj |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 flew | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 flew | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bee | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bee | compound |
| 17 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | advcl |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trailing | punct |
| 22 | trailing | trail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 flew | advcl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 wing | nummod |
| 24 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trailing | obj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trailing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 torn | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 torn | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 torn | aux:pass |
| 31 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 32 torn | advmod |
| 32 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 trailing | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 two | case |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 torn | obl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 bird | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bird | det |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bird | amod |
| 38 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 torn | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | Ferko | Ferko's journey | again | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not go | past · perfect | Ferko | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | a queen bee | against Ferko; far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent against he=Location | ||||
| 4 | trail | gerund | a queen bee not said here | one wing | behind bee | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wing=Theme behind she=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | tear | past · perfect · passive | a big bird | two | cruelly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | journey | Ferko | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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