Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 126
This was a terrible prospect for the beetle, for he could not escape in consequence of being bound to the mast.
Who acts: This, beetle · What happens: be, not escape, bind · To what, where: terrible prospect, consequence
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 prospect | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prospect | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prospect | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prospect | amod |
| 5 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 beetle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beetle | det |
| 8 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prospect | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 escape | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 escape | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 escape | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 escape | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 escape | advmod |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prospect | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 consequence | case |
| 16 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escape | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 bound | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 bound | aux:pass |
| 19 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 consequence | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 mast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mast | det |
| 22 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bound | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prospect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a terrible prospect | for the beetle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not escape | could | beetle | consequence | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind | gerund · passive | consequence not said here | to the mast | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: 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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