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title: On the spot the queen bee was cured, and turning to Ferko she said,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the spot the queen bee was cured, and turning to Ferko she said, ‘I am most grateful for your kindness, and shall reward you some day.’ Who acts: bee, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 49

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On the spot the queen bee was cured, and turning to Ferko she said, ‘I am most grateful for your kindness, and shall reward you some day.’

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**Who acts:** bee, I · **What happens:** cure, turn, say, be, reward · **To what, where:** queen bee, spot, Ferko, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee, I), 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:pg640:14:49
# text = On the spot the queen bee was cured, and turning to Ferko she said, ‘I am most grateful for your kindness, and shall reward you some day.’
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	reward	reward	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | past · passive |  | the queen bee |  | the spot |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund |  |  | Ferko |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ferko=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bee |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for your kindness; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **reward** | shall |  |  | you |  | day |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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