The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 75
And when evening was come the queen bee flew by, and perching on his shoulder she said, ‘The wonderful palace is ready.
Who acts: evening, queen bee, bee, wonderful palace · What happens: be, fly by, perch, say · To what, where: shoulder · 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 (evening, queen bee, bee, wonderful palace), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | cop |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bee | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bee | compound |
| 8 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 13 | perching | perch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 said | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perching | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ready | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 ready | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 palace | amod |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ready | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ready | cop |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | evening | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly by | past | the queen bee | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perch | gerund | Ferko's shoulder | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | bee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the wonderful palace | ready property | tree rules |
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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