Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 114

Then he prowled about in the earth, and thought what a pleasant dream that was about the dying horse, and the golden shoes he had inherited.

Who acts: quantity, pleasant dream · What happens: prowl, think, die, be, inherit · To what, where: earth, golden shoes

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 (quantity, pleasant dream), 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 prowled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prowled	nsubj
3	prowled	prowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 prowled	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prowled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prowled	parataxis
11	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 dream	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dream	det
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dream	amod
14	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 horse	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 horse	cop
17	about	about	ADP	_	20 horse	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
19	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 horse	amod
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dream	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 inherited	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 inherited	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shoes	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shoes	amod
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 inherited	nsubj:pass
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 inherited	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 inherited	aux
28	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thought	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prowled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prowl	past	quantity		the earth	then	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in earth=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	past						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	past	what pleasant dream				about the dying horse	tree rules
5	inherit	past · perfect · passive		the golden shoes				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/114/