Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 105
It is very comfortable here," he said to himself, and soon after fell asleep.
Who acts: sash, beetle · What happens: be, say, fall · To what, where: beetle · 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 (sash, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comfortable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comfortable | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 comfortable | advmod |
| 4 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 comfortable | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfortable | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfortable | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 comfortable | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | advmod |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 comfortable | advcl |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sash | here | comfortable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | beetle | beetle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | past | sash not said here | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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