Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 106
Then he dreamed that the emperor's horse was dying, and had left him his golden shoes, and also promised that he should have two more.
Who acts: beetle, horse · What happens: dream, die, leave, promise, have · To what, where: golden shoes, beetle, two more · 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 (beetle, horse), 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 dreamed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dreamed | nsubj |
| 3 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dying | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dying | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dying | aux |
| 10 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dreamed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 dreamed | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | iobj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shoes | amod |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 left | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 promised | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 promised | cc |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 promised | advmod |
| 22 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamed | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 promised | ccomp |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 more | nummod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | beetle | then | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | die | past · progressive | the emperor's horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | beetle not said here | beetle's golden shoes | beetle | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme shoe=Attribute | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | beetle not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | should | beetle | two more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
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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