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title: “Well, now I am going to sleep,” observed the bee when the last crum… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, now I am going to sleep,” observed the bee when the last crumb was gone, “but as you are not very big I can make room for you beside me,” and he curled up his wings, and tucked in his legs, and he and the prince both slept soundly till morning. Who acts: boy, last crumb, you, bee. A sentence 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 33

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“Well, now I am going to sleep,” observed the bee when the last crumb was gone, “but as you are not very big I can make room for you beside me,” and he curled up his wings, and tucked in his legs, and he and the prince both slept soundly till morning.

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**Who acts:** boy, last crumb, you, bee · **What happens:** go, sleep, observe, be, not be, make · **To what, where:** bee, room, wings, legs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, last crumb, you, bee), 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:pg3282:18:33
# text = “Well, now I am going to sleep,” observed the bee when the last crumb was gone, “but as you are not very big I can make room for you beside me,” and he curled up his wings, and tucked in his legs, and he and the prince both slept soundly till morning.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
36	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	curled	curl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
58	both	both	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
60	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
61	till	till	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the boy *= boy* |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the boy *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **observe** | past |  | the bee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the last crumb |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | can | the boy *= boy* | room |  |  |  | for you; beside the boy *= boy* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for you=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **curl up** | past | bee | bee's wings |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 8 | **tuck** | participle | bee *not said here* |  |  | bee's legs |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in leg=Trajectory |
| 9 | **sleep** | past | bee |  |  |  | morning | both, soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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