--- title: They buzzed round the prince and stung his face and hands; angrily h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They buzzed round the prince and stung his face and hands; angrily he drew his sword and brandished it, but he only touched the air and did not hit the gnats. Who acts: warriors, prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Wicked Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/) / 29 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 29 They buzzed round the prince and stung his face and hands; angrily he drew his sword and brandished it, but he only touched the air and did not hit the gnats. **Who acts:** warriors, prince · **What happens:** buzz, sting, draw, brandish, touch, not hit · **To what, where:** face, sword, air, gnats This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors, prince), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:207:29 # text = They buzzed round the prince and stung his face and hands; angrily he drew his sword and brandished it, but he only touched the air and did not hit the gnats. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 buzzed buzz VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 round round ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 stung sting VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 angrily angrily ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 brandished brandish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 gnats gnat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buzz** | past | warriors *= warrior* | | | | | round the prince | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sting** | past | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | prince's face and hands | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus face=Experiencer | | 3 | **draw** | past | prince | prince's sword | | | | angrily *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 4 | **brandish** | past | prince *not said here* | sword | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **touch** | past | prince | the air | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Co-Theme | | 6 | **not** **hit** | past · do-support | prince *not said here* | the gnats | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gnat=Co-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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/30/) - ↑ back to [The Wicked Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/)