Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 116

The gardener's little son and his playfellow had come into the hothouse, and, seeing the beetle, wanted to have some fun with him.

Who acts: little son · What happens: come, see, want, have · To what, where: hothouse, beetle, fun

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 (little son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:552): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 playfellow	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 playfellow	nmod:poss
8	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	conj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 hothouse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hothouse	det
13	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wanted	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 wanted	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beetle	det
19	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 fun	det
25	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the gardener's little son and son's playfellow		the hothouse		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hothouse=Initial_Location
2	see	gerund		the beetle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beetle=Stimulus
3	want	past	the gardener's little son and son's playfellow not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gardener's little son and son's playfellow not said here	some fun		with beetle	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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