Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 122

The lake was not very large, but to the beetle it seemed an ocean, and he was so astonished at its size that he fell over on his back, and kicked out his legs.

Who acts: lake, it, beetle · What happens: not be, seem, be, fall over, kick out · To what, where: ocean, size, back, legs

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 (lake, it, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 large	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 large	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 beetle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beetle	det
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 large	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ocean	det
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 astonished	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 astonished	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 astonished	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 astonished	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 astonished	advmod
21	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 large	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 size	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 size	nmod:poss
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 astonished	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 astonished	advcl
28	over	over	ADV	_	27 fell	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kicked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kicked	cc
34	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 large	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 kicked	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 legs	nmod:poss
37	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 kicked	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the lake			large property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it	a ocean		to the beetle	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ocean=Attribute
3	is	past	beetle		lake's size	astonished property	tree rules
4	fall over	past	beetle		beetle's back	over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on back=Location
5	kick out	past	the lake not said here	beetle's legs			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=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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