Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 103
Our beetle considered this speech a great insult, so he flew suddenly out of the speaker's hand.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: consider, fly · To what, where: speech, hand
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 (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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 beetle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 speech | det |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 insult | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 insult | amod |
| 8 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | conj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 speaker | det |
| 17 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 speaker | case |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | Our beetle | this speech | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent speech=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | beetle | the speaker's hand | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent out hand=Location |
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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