Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 120

Here the beetle was put into an old broken wooden shoe, in which a little stick had been fastened upright for a mast, and to this mast the beetle was bound with a piece of worsted.

Who acts: little stick · What happens: put, break, fasten, be, bind · To what, where: beetle, old broken wooden shoe, fastened upright

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 stick), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	11 shoe	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shoe	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoe	amod
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shoe	amod
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoe	amod
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 upright	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 upright	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stick	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stick	amod
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 upright	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 upright	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 upright	cop
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 upright	amod
21	upright	upright	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 mast	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mast	det
24	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 upright	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bound	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bound	cc
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 mast	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 mast	det
29	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bound	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beetle	det
31	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bound	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bound	aux:pass
33	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 put	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 piece	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 piece	det
36	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bound	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 worsted	case
38	worsted	worsted	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 piece	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		the beetle	a old broken wooden shoe; here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	fasten	participle					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a	past · perfect	a little stick	fastened upright		for a mast	tree rules
5	bind	past · passive		the beetle		to this mast; with a piece of worsted	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to mast=Co-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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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