The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 88
When it grew dark, a little bee flew by, and knocking at the window, it said, ‘Open, and let me in.’
Who acts: head, little bee · What happens: grow, fly by, knock, say, let in · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bee | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bee | amod |
| 8 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knocking | cc |
| 13 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 window | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 window | det |
| 16 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Open | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Open | punct |
| 22 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 let | cc |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | head | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly by | past | a little bee | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | head not said here | at the window | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let in | infinitive | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.
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