The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 111
‘Not so easy as you think,’ cried the little bee, who was flying past.
Who acts: you, little bee · What happens: think, cry, fly · To what, where: little bee
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 easy | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 easy | advmod |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bee | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bee | amod |
| 13 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flying | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 flying | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flying | aux |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 bee | acl |
| 18 | past | past | ADV | _ | 17 flying | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little bee | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fly | past · progressive | the little bee | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/27/111/