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title: There were bees standing in all the passages, waving their wings, so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were bees standing in all the passages, waving their wings, so that a wholesome draught of air might blow through the great manufactory; that was their business. Who acts: bees, wholesome draught, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Inve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 56

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There were bees standing in all the passages, waving their wings, so that a wholesome draught of air might blow through the great manufactory; that was their business.

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**Who acts:** bees, wholesome draught, that · **What happens:** be, stand, wave, blow · **To what, where:** passages, wings, great manufactory, business

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, wholesome draught, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:206:56
# text = There were bees standing in all the passages, waving their wings, so that a wholesome draught of air might blow through the great manufactory; that was their business.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	manufactory	manufactory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | bees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | bees *not said here* |  |  | all passages |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location |
| 3 | **wave** | gerund | bees *not said here* | bees's wings |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **blow** | might | a wholesome draught of air |  |  | the great manufactory |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | bees's business |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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