Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 110

What a wonderful quantity of plants," cried the beetle; "how good they will taste when they are decayed!

Who acts: wonderful quantity, flowers · What happens: cry, taste, decay · To what, where: beetle, flowers · 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 (wonderful quantity, flowers), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 quantity	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 quantity	det
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quantity	amod
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 plants	case
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quantity	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 quantity	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 quantity	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beetle	det
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taste	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 taste	aux
18	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 good	parataxis
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 decayed	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 decayed	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 decayed	aux:pass
22	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 taste	ccomp
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	what wonderful quantity of plants	the beetle	tree rules
2	taste	future	flowers = flower		vn see-30.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	decay	present · passive		flowers = flower	tree rules

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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