Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 107
All this was very delightful, and when the beetle woke up he crept forth and looked around him.
Who acts: this, beetle · What happens: be, wake up, creep, look
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 (this, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 delightful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delightful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 delightful | advmod |
| 5 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crept | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 woke | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beetle | det |
| 10 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woke | nsubj |
| 11 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crept | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 woke | compound:prt |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crept | nsubj |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delightful | parataxis |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 crept | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crept | conj |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | delightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake up | past | the beetle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | creep | past | beetle | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | beetle not said here | around beetle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=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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