Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 118
He twisted and turned about with all his might, but he got a good squeeze from the boy's hand, as a hint for him to keep quiet.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: twist, turn about, get, keep · To what, where: good squeeze, hand
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 twisted | nsubj |
| 2 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 turned | cc |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 twisted | conj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 might | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 might | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 might | nmod:poss |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 twisted | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 squeeze | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 squeeze | amod |
| 16 | squeeze | squeeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 boy | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 squeeze | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hint | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 hint | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hint | det |
| 25 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hint | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 keep | mark |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 got | advcl |
| 30 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 keep | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | beetle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn about | past | beetle not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | beetle | a good squeeze | the boy's hand | as a hint for boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer squeeze=Stimulus as hint=Attribute | ||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | beetle not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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