Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 102
The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry the beetle home, as they wanted just such good specimens as this.
Who acts: second person, nature · What happens: be, propose, carry, want · To what, where: beetle, such good specimens
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 (second person, nature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 older | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 older | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 older | cop |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scholar | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scholar | det |
| 10 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 person | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proposed | punct |
| 12 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 proposed | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beetle | det |
| 16 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 carry | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wanted | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 wanted | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wanted | nsubj |
| 21 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | advcl |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 specimens | advmod |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 specimens | amod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 specimens | amod |
| 25 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wanted | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 wanted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the second person and a scholar | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | the beetle | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | past | nature | such good specimens | as this | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent specimen=Theme as this=Attribute |
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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