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title: The bees were all so stupefied with what they had eaten that it was… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bees were all so stupefied with what they had eaten that it was possible to draw their stings without hunting them. Who acts: bees, part. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 92

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The bees were all so stupefied with what they had eaten that it was possible to draw their stings without hunting them.

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**Who acts:** bees, part · **What happens:** stupefy, eat, be, draw, hunt, sting · **To what, where:** bees, stings

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, part), 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:pg3027:27:92
# text = The bees were all so stupefied with what they had eaten that it was possible to draw their stings without hunting them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stupefied	stupefy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stupefy** | past · passive |  | the bees |  |  |  | all *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | part |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **draw** | to-infinitive | bees *= bee* *not said here* | bees's stings |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Theme |
| 5 | **hunt** | gerund | bees *= bee* *not said here* | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **sting** |  | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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