The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 139
One day the Queen gave a large garden-party, and just as the guests were all assembled, and Prince Mirliflor was as usual dividing his attentions between the twelve beauties, a humming of bees was heard.
Who acts: Queen, Mirliflor, Prince, bees · What happens: give, assemble, divide, hear, attend, hum · To what, where: large garden party, guests, attentions, humming
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Mirliflor, Prince, bees), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 party | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 party | amod |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 party | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 garden | punct |
| 10 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assembled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 assembled | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 assembled | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 assembled | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 guests | det |
| 16 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 assembled | aux:pass |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 assembled | advmod |
| 19 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gave | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dividing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dividing | cc |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mirliflor | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Mirliflor | Mirliflor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 dividing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dividing | aux |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 dividing | mark |
| 26 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dividing | amod |
| 27 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 attentions | nmod:poss |
| 29 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dividing | obj |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 33 beauties | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 beauties | det |
| 32 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 beauties | nummod |
| 33 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dividing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 humming | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 humming | det |
| 36 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 heard | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bees | case |
| 38 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 humming | nmod |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 heard | aux:pass |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 beauties | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Queen | a large garden party | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | |||
| 2 | assemble | past · passive | the guests | all property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | divide | past · progressive | Mirliflor Prince | Prince's attentions | between the twelve beauties | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | a humming of bees | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | attend | Prince | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | hum | bees | nom humming «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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