Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 101
Then he translated the beetle's name into Latin, and said a great deal upon the creature's nature and history.
Who acts: Allah, beetle · What happens: translate, say, name · To what, where: name, Latin, great deal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Allah, beetle), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 translated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 translated | nsubj |
| 3 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beetle | det |
| 5 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 beetle | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 Latin | case |
| 9 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 translated | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 nature | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nature | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 creature | case |
| 20 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 history | cc |
| 22 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nature | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past | Allah | the beetle's name | then | into Latin result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent name=Patient into latin=Result | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Allah not said here | a great deal | upon the creature's nature and history | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic | |||
| 3 | name | the beetle | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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