Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 104

His wings were dry now, so they carried him to a great distance, till at last he reached a hothouse, where a sash of the glass roof was partly open, so he quietly slipped in and buried himself in the warm earth. "

Who acts: wings, beetle, sash · What happens: be, carry, reach, slip in, bury · To what, where: beetle, hothouse, last, warm earth

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 (wings, beetle, sash), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	cop
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dry	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	nsubj
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 distance	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 distance	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 distance	amod
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hothouse	det
22	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 open	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 open	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sash	det
26	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 open	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 roof	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 roof	det
29	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roof	compound
30	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sash	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 open	cop
32	partly	partly	ADV	_	33 open	advmod
33	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hothouse	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slipped	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 slipped	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 slipped	nsubj
37	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	38 slipped	advmod
38	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	parataxis
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 slipped	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 buried	cc
41	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 slipped	conj
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 buried	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 earth	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 earth	det
45	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 earth	amod
46	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 buried	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	beetle's wings			now	dry property	tree rules
2	carry	past	wings = wing	beetle			to a great distance	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to distance=Destination
3	reach	past	beetle	a hothouse	last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hothouse=Theme at last=Asset
4	is	past	a sash of the glass roof				open, partly property	tree rules
5	slip in	past	beetle				quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	bury	past	beetle not said here	beetle	the warm earth			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in earth=Destination

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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