The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 64

As he was wandering disconsolately about the meadows round the palace, wondering how he could escape being put to death, a little bee flew past, and settling on his shoulder whispered in his ear, ‘What is troubling you, my kind benefactor?

Who acts: Ferko, little bee, settling · What happens: wonder, escape, put, fly, settle, whisper · To what, where: ear, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, little bee, settling), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 wandering	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandering	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandering	aux
4	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 flew	advcl
5	disconsolately	disconsolately	ADV	_	4 wandering	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 meadows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meadows	det
8	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandering	obl
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meadows	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wondering	punct
13	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wandering	parataxis
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 escape	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 escape	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 escape	aux
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wondering	ccomp
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 escape	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wandering	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bee	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bee	amod
25	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	past	past	ADV	_	26 flew	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whispered	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 whispered	cc
30	settling	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 whispered	csubj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 shoulder	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoulder	nmod:poss
33	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 settling	obl
34	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flew	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 ear	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 ear	nmod:poss
37	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 whispered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 troubling	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 troubling	punct
40	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 troubling	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 troubling	aux
42	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 whispered	advcl
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 troubling	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 benefactor	punct
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 benefactor	nmod:poss
46	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 benefactor	amod
47	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 troubling	conj
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	Ferko			about the meadows round the palace; disconsolately property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about meadow=Stimulus
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	escape	could	Ferko				tree rules
4	put	gerund · passive	Ferko not said here			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
5	fly	past	a little bee			past property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	settle	gerund				on Ferko's shoulder	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Topic
7	whisper speech: assert	past	settling		Ferko's ear		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
8	trouble	present · progressive		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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