The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 82
This splendid palace had been built by the grateful queen bee, who had summoned all the other bees in the kingdom to help her.
Who acts: grateful queen bee · What happens: build, summon, help · To what, where: splendid palace, bee
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 (grateful queen bee), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 palace | det |
| 2 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 bee | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bee | det |
| 9 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bee | amod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bee | compound |
| 11 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 summoned | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 summoned | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 summoned | aux |
| 15 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 bee | acl:relcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 bees | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bees | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bees | amod |
| 19 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 summoned | obl:agent |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bees | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 summoned | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect · passive | the grateful queen bee | this splendid palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | summon | past · perfect | the grateful queen bee | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | the grateful queen bee not said here | bee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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